Klarinet Archive - Posting 000993.txt from 2002/11

From: "GJ Irani" <gustadji@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jean Cartier
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:09:34 -0500

I owned a Jean Cartier "5 Star Professional" that came with a Jean Cartier
"Chedeville" mouthpiece. It was a fine jazz clarinet with a big sound that I
loved and compared favourably with Selmers and and Leblanc big-bore
clarinets. I do not think these are student clarinets; actually it makes a
good collectors item; unfortunately I had to sell mine for personal reasons.
I notice that many are bound to the 3 main name brand clarinets and tend to
derogatively refer to many old boutique instruments as "stencil" brands and
so on...
Sincerely
Gustadji

>From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Jean Cartier
>Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:14:53 -0800 (PST)
>
> <><> Stewart & Lynda Milton wrote:
>Does anyone please know anything about Jean Cartier 'professional'
>clarinets.... when they were in business, and if they were any good?
>
>
>
>There are many, many, many "stencil' brands of clarinet, whereby someone
>contracts to buy a bunch of inexpensive clarinets from somewhere and
>stencils a "private label" on them and puts them on the market for a
>bottom-dollar price. If the same person decides to repeat the
>enterprise, they may chose a different name the next time around.
>
>It's unlikely that any of us recognize this particular stencil name.
>There is no guarantee that it is an inferior instrument, but the odds
>are against it being of the same quality as a $400-$500 student horn by
>(in no particular order) Yamaha, Selmer, Leblanc or Buffet.
>
>Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
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