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Author: John Scorgie
Date: 2009-01-29 21:45
These days all of the clarinets made by the Buffet company are called "Buffet", even the low priced plastic models.
In the 50s and into the 60s, the company used three trademarks for their clarinets: Buffet-Crampon (wood, professional models), Evette & Schaeffer (wood, medium priced) and Evette (hard rubber or plastic, maybe both, low priced).
Your clarinet seems to be a hard rubber Evette, since I have never heard of a plastic clarinet turning green, although a green discoloration is quite common with old hard rubber (ebonite) clarinets and mouthpieces.
IIRC, Dr. Henderson has done knowledgeable postings on this BB on this very subject and has stated that the green discoloration is the result of sulfur compounds coming to the surface of the rubber.
If you will Google "Henderson" and "clarinet" this should bring up his website. He has a number of high quality reasonably priced products for the clarinet and may have some treatment which will help to restore your clarinet to its original color.
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bayash522 |
2009-01-28 20:09 |
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Chris P |
2009-01-28 20:18 |
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Ed Palanker |
2009-01-28 20:31 |
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Chris P |
2009-01-28 21:30 |
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Re: Evette Sponsored by Buffet, Paris France new |
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John Scorgie |
2009-01-29 21:45 |
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Jack Kissinger |
2009-01-29 23:28 |
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Caroline Smale |
2009-01-30 19:09 |
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Chris P |
2009-01-30 19:13 |
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Mark P. Jasuta |
2009-02-01 00:53 |
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