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Re: Leblanc LL's

Author: Malcolm Martland
Date: 2006-09-18 15:40

Chris - thanks for the technical enlightenment. I think I am too set in my ways to learn extra keys now - but a full Boehm would be nice - they must be quite heavy - especially the A.

Terry - thanks for the politics.

Ken - thanks for the links - how did you find these instruments? - I cannot get there from the gleblanc.com site - are these actually instruments currently on-sale? John Packer in UK offers the Noblet 50s (plateau) for about UK£1000 - but the mechanism is not the same as the LL shown in the old catalogue - with (on the Noblet) the left hand 2nd and 3rd finger keys set on a separate offset column to the 1st finger key - and the fork Bb/Eb xoo|oox is missing. On the LL image the 1st, 2nd and 3rd left hand finger keys are all set on the same column - as in my Malerne plateau.

The price list is interesting listing full Boehm Bb, A, C and Eb - also they were marketing in UK out of the Bill Lewington address at that time. I bought my Noblet Artist from there about 1978. I was lucky enough to be given my 1974 LL about 10 years ago by my elderly father-in-law.

Malcolm

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