Author: insure2020
Date: 2008-06-11 23:18
Re: Thibouville Freres...
I suppose it is possible, but from what I have gathered on the net, the only known stencils they did were for about 18 companies, none of which was the woodwind company.
See: http://tinyurl.com/57azpj
Also see: http://tinyurl.com/4ksdtm --which seems to back up the "18 companies" claim--quite a good history of Thibouville (I had to get the page from google cache as the page is no longer active)
Here is a short snippet from that page:
Martin Denis’s other son, Eugène (b 1832; d Ivry-la-Bataille, 1891), established his own firm by 1855 in Paris; by 1862 it was located in Ivry-la-Bataille as ‘Noblet & Thibouville’. This was succeeded in 1886 or 1887 by ‘Eugène Thibouville et fils’, the two sons being Adrien (b Ivry-la-Bataille, 1855) and Camille (b Ivry-la-Bataille, 1864). By 1890 it was called ‘les fils d’Eugène Thibouville’ and in 1909 ‘Thibouville frères’, which continued, after 1910, under the management of Adrien’s younger son George (b Ivry-la-Bataille, 1886; d Ivry-la-Bataille, 1957), passing in 1957 to Maurice Masson. The woodwind instruments made by Thibouville frères could also be stamped on request with the mark of any of 18 different clients.
I guess The Woodwind Company must have only sold these clarinets for a very short period of time, since finding out who made them seems nearly impossible.
It's hard to believe that no one else has ever stumbled across one of these.
I've checked virtually every reference on the net to "the woodwind company" and have only found one or two references to them selling instruments, and in those cases they were saxophones. (i think the consensus was they were made by SML?)
Any more guesses?
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