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Author: icecoke12
Date: 2003-07-23 03:27
I read in this woodwind catalog that says "Leblanc clarinet barrels are made with excellent quality wood with a moennig taper."
Are the dimensions of the bore similar to the moennig barrels made by Buffet?
The Opus barrel and the Concerto barrel are also priced differently. Is there any difference between those two sold?
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Author: Rick Williams
Date: 2003-07-23 11:26
You can ask Leblanc directly at gleblanc@gleblanc.com, besides the wood and logo on the barrels, the only difference that I've been told about is that the rings on the Opus are silver.
RW
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Author: William
Date: 2003-07-23 16:20
The LeBlanc accoustician responsible for the Concerto/Opus clrinet design stated that "the accoustic specifications of the Sonata, Opus and Concerto clarinet models are identical" and, that "they all come from the same woodpile." The Concerto and Opus clarinets were receiving more thorough pre-market evaluation and needed "tweeking" when I was at the Kenosha facility selecting my Concerto clarinets. Every Concerto and Opus assembled at the plant was being play tested by either tom Ridenour or another technician with accoustical and mechanical problems being corrected before marketing.
(BTW & FYI--there was an "unspecified" accoustical problem with the pre 65,000 Concerto/Opus clarinets that Tom R. said had been "corrected" in the models that I was auditioning. I have no other verification or info other than his "off the cuff" remark made to me during my clarinet audition visit to LeBlanc. Just more justification to speculate what really goes on "behind closed corporate doors"..........)
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2003-07-23 16:32
I think I have missed the relevance to most of your thread William, and it seems like you have just "cut and pasted" the majority of it anyway, so I am wondering if it is just me.
Bradley
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Author: William
Date: 2003-07-23 17:47
No cutting or pasting--just "quotation" marks. I was simply addressing the differencies issue of the original posting and reporting more of Tom's comments to me. Sorry for any confusion.....................
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-07-23 18:03
William wrote:
> Just more justification to speculate what really goes on
> "behind closed corporate doors"..........)
Is that remark supposed to be sinister? There are problems with darn near everything ever made, and there's hopefully iterative design improvements all the time. If the problem were a glaring one you can bet it would have been found before 65000 were produced. There's always little nits ... and changing tooling to satisfy the one or two people who might be disappointed with the run wouldn't be justified until the machinery needed adjusting/replacing for other reasons.
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Author: icecoke12
Date: 2003-07-24 13:35
Errmmm...
ok... so does anyone knows more abt the moennig taper in those Leblanc barrels and whether they have identical design to the buffet ones?
I would have liked to email Leblanc directly to ask.. but it does seem pretty weird to ask them abt how their barrels compare to buffet ones.....
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Author: Bradley
Date: 2003-07-24 15:10
William- I never meant literally cut and paste text, I meant the general ideas and thoughts. How many times have we discussed that already, and how many people have said that exact same thing?
Also William, if you were trying to explain that the horns are so close in design so therefore the barrels should be no different, the Opus has quite a few "upgrades" and so the question about the barrels was a valid one at least to me.
Icecoke- Email them, or even call them- because I have spoken to a few of the people at Leblanc before, and one in particular about comparisons between Buffet models and Leblanc ones, and he was really informative- no hint of bias or anything.
Bradley
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