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Leslie Sheppard

Author: NHM
Date: 2005-04-25 21:21

Can any of you historians out there help. I have recently inherited a clarinet with the name "Leslie Sheppard Burgess Hill Sussex" stamped inside an oval on the bell and "8470 foreign" stamped on each of the other parts. Despite trawling the internet, I cannot find any history of this make. Does anyone out there know who/where/when this company existed or even if it still exists. Any information would be helpful.

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Re: Leslie Sheppard

Author: bob49t
Date: 2005-04-25 22:09

This is all pure conjecture but could this a be a "stencil" instrument made by a foreign manufacturer but emblazoned with Leslie Sheppard's logo. Leslie Sheppard may have been a musical instrument retailer.
This was widely done in the sax market. Some good makers of saxes stencilled for local shops who would have spoken for a set number of the instruments at a set price.

I'm sure the Wise of this BB will help with accuracy and further info.

RT

Forgive me, but as an afterthought, is your spelling of the name accurate? Any web searches won't hit home, if it's not. I know this to my cost when researching something similar.

AND - additionally I've turned this up at an auction sale -

http://www.pfkauctions.co.uk/Catalogues/As060405/page22.htm

Go to item 658 - a rosewood oboe in similar vein bearing the name Leslie Sheppard and of foreign birth.

BobT

Post Edited (2005-04-25 22:18)

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