Klarinet Archive - Posting 001066.txt from 2003/04

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Remarkable Similarity.....
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:46:42 -0400

> Anyway, does anybody know why these two brand/models are so similar? Does
> LeBlanc make them for Yamaha? Did Yamaha hire a spy and steal the blueprints
> from a locked safe in Racine? I'd like to know.

I think they did something unbeliveble! They bought one! :-))
Without joking. This happened to the Wurlitzer Clarinets When Yamaha did the
first attempt to make clarinet for professional players. Or it is the other
way round - the Wurlitzer design is so perfext that even an Japanese
mechanic can not think of something better ._:-))

Best Georg

> Walter Grabner
> www.clarinetxpress.com
> bass clarinet repairs and mouthpieces

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