Klarinet Archive - Posting 000457.txt from 2005/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] vito reed cases
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:28:31 -0500

At 09:51 AM 3/16/2005 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:56:46 -0600, Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
>wrote:
>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.

Oh, the Vito clarinets are still in the catalog, along with a new, but
externally identical, small-bore model. But, as in the Bundy/Selmer case,
the new Vitos are knows as Leblanc 7212, etc., and the former boss's name
is fading into history.

Bill Hausmann

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

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