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 1960s Noblet Brochures
Author: stevesklar 
Date:   2007-03-08 12:53

For your pleasure if anyone is interested in old brochures

http://www.saxmaniax.com/galleryclar/Noblet/Noblet40Brochure1.jpg

http://www.saxmaniax.com/galleryclar/Noblet/Noblet40Brochure2.jpg

a Noblet 40 was $194 in 1960

notice that the 45 has the hand engraving o nthe bell.

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Stephen Sklar
My YouTube Channel of Clarinet Information

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 Re: 1960s Noblet Brochures
Author: DougR 
Date:   2007-03-08 23:09

thanks, Steve--
the second brochure has the actual price written on it in ballpoint pen: $189.50, which is exactly what my parents paid for my Noblet 40 in 1959. I've downloaded both brochures; still have the horn, too, though the last time I played it was years ago (an outdoor gig, in a light drizzle--wanted to spare my R13).

Since we're talking archaeology (or is it cultural anthropology?) I'll just throw this out:

I used the horn in junior high school, in a band that was directed by Bruno Laakko, who some may remember as a jazz celebrity in Finland, leading pioneering jazz bands there in the 1930s. How he ended up teaching junior high school band in 1950s Maryland, I have no idea. He cut quite a dashing figure, though--snappy crew cut, madras jackets, bow ties, drove a '55 Thunderbird with a continental kit...and kept us kids entertained between numbers with hair-raising personal accounts of combat in the Russo-Finnish war.

...see what you uncorked?

again, though, thanks!

Doug R

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 Re: 1960s Noblet Brochures
Author: stevesklar 
Date:   2007-03-09 09:13

I guess a year later the price went up by $5
http://www.saxmaniax.com/galleryclar/Noblet/Noblet40Receipt.jpg

serial number 18559 for 1960

interesting account of Laakko

Steve

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