Author: rsholmes
Date: 2006-09-15 01:10
Way back in 2002, there was some discussion of Evette & Schaeffer serial numbers, particularly the pre-4000 K series. Three questions Jack Kissinger asked more than once about instruments from that period:
> 1. On the upper joint, does the throat G# key have a small adjusting screw?
> 2. Also, on the upper joint, do the throat G# and A keys share a post or are
> there two separate posts for each of the keys?
> 3. On the lower joint, do the left-hand (cluster) E/B and F#/C# levers each
> have their own pivot post or do they share one.
I don't know for sure how much if any more is known now than then. For what it's worth, on my K24xx non Master Model E&S:
1. G# key has adjusting screw.
2. G# and A keys share a post.
3. The LH E/B and F#/C# levers have separate pivots, mounted on separate posts -- one about 1cm above (closer to the mouthpiece than) the other.
For another piece of information that might aid in dating: the case is black, with purple lining. It's thin with a flared part to accommodate the bell. Two spring latches, with locks in the latch releases. There's what I thought was a space for a second barrel, but on looking online at other old cases I think now it's for a reed case. A wire-and-yarn mop type cleaner came with the instrument when I got it, and I think it was supplied originally with the instrument; there's a loop in the case to hold it. There's also a space for a small flat round container of cork grease.
Hope this information is useful to someone, and if anyone has light to shed on these early K-series serial numbers I'd be interested in hearing.
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