Klarinet Archive - Posting 000460.txt from 2003/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] fire at LeBlanc factory
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:21:41 -0500

At 10:50 AM 2/16/2003 -0600, R. Williams wrote:
>This is from the LeBlanc website
>
> From LeBlanc Bell Magazine August 2001
> "Recently, the tooling and manufacture of the metal-bodied contrabass=20
> clarinets were transferred from the French plant to Leblanc's Kenosha=20
> facilities. Here, the combined talents of brasswind and woodwind=20
> engineers and craftsmen have led to an even greater level of product=20
> quality and consistency. Louis Dalaudi=E8re, once a Leblanc plant manager=
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> in France and now a respected consultant, visited the Kenosha factory for=
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> a number of weeks to guide American employees on the proper techniques=20
> for building this amazing instrument...

OK. I'm convinced. They should make other parts of their website reflect=20
the same information, though.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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