Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 2005/03

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] vito reed cases
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:53:36 -0500

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:56:46 -0600, Bill Hausmann
<bhausmann1@-----.net> wrote:

> At 10:54 PM 3/15/2005 +0100, David Glenn wrote:
>
>>>...
>>>Still wonder what happened to Vito European imports...
>>
>>
>
>No telling. Leblanc is sort of in flux these days since being acquired by
>Conn-Selmer. I wonder how much will survive the transition. Looks like
>one of the first things they are doing is eliminating their heritage by
>dropping recently deceased Vito Pascucci's name from the product line (like
>Selmer did with George M. Bundy, but much quicker).
>

Really? I think that is a shame. The Vito, in my opinion, is one of
the few plastic clarinets that is worthy of serious respect.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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