Klarinet Archive - Posting 000763.txt from 2003/08

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Horn experts and scholars needed
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:20:47 -0400

In a message dated 8/27/2003 5:21:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gary@-----.com writes:

> Does it have the original bocal?>>

The neck looks like the same metal and the same age as the rest of the instrument. It also fits the tenon socket well.
>
> I am assuming this is not an ancient instrument. It would seem unlikely Leblanc would have made a basset horn than only went to Eb during the last 50 years.>>

It looks post-WWII, but not by too many years, it's quite "weathered".

Walter

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