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I DID a search...but didnt get the answer

Author: john gibson
Date: 2003-09-04 03:48

I just bought a Noblet clarinet. Damned ugliest tarnished keys you can't believe. But the wood is beautiful. Rich brown not black. So it's unstained, but well oiled. Here's what I want to know. It's a D. Noblet not an N. Noblet. What's the difference? it has "in-line" jump keys. Serial number is only four numbers long.....3xxx. Despite it's brown/tarnished keys and obvious need for at least "some" new pads....this clarinet plays really well.....and sounds really good. So what's the dif between "D" and "N" Noblet clarinets? Anyone know it's age from the serial number?
Thanks.....
John

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Re: I DID a search...but didnt get the answer

Author: Todd W.
Date: 2003-09-04 18:05

john --

They only made 26 of them and you have the fourth one?

Can you get your daughter to take a picture of you holding the clarinet?

Todd W. ;+)))

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Re: I DID a search...but didnt get the answer

Author: GBK
Date: 2003-09-04 18:41

John... Did you read both of these threads?

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=101817&t=101768

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=83428&t=83281

Leblanc has never released a serial number list, so you might try contacting them directly:

Telephone: (414) 658-1644

Fax: (414) 658-2824 ...GBK

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Re: I DID a search...but didnt get the answer

Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-09-04 19:37

If the keys appear brown or yellow, they're likely unplated nickel silver. Done properly, this stuff cleans up beautifully. See the current thread "Tarnished keys."

D. Noblet was for Denis Noblet, original owner of the company. Some later Noblet Clarinets used a side-squashed oval logo with "Noblet" inside it and an "N" in a circle above. I have suspected that "N" just indicates Noblet, but I am not at all sure.

Regards,
John

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