Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2005/04

From: "DWH" <dwh46@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] another unusual clarinet brand - "Jean Cartier"
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:05:14 -0500

You can also occasionally find, on eBay and elsewhere, Jean Cartier
saxophones. They all seem to have been made by the old Dolnet firm, a
private shop in France that made a very limited number of incredible saxes
from the very early fifties to about 1975 - I have two altos and a tenor
that all are equal to any Selmer or SML sax I have played- and I picked up a
Dolnet clarinet on eBay awhile back that looks like a cross between a Buffet
and a Selmer.

I also just turned this up on a Google search -
"Alexandre" instruments should not be confused with "Alexander". The former
were produced in Italy (Rampone, I think...) imported to the States by the
Ernest Deffner Company. Alexander instruments are built in Mainz by the
Alexander family. They are absolutely top quality brasses.
"Jean Cartier" was a stencil name owned by the C. Bruno Company (Texas and
earlier in New York). Sometimes French, sometimes Italian.

http://www.lynsgarden.co.uk/Gary.html

Don Hatfield

I had an e-mail from a former student who is now an instrument repair
person. He has come across a clarinet marked "Jean Cartier." He said
it looked as though it might be a copy of an older R-13, or perhaps an
R-13 with someone else's name stenciled on it.

Does anyone have any information?

Ed Lacy
University of Evansville

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