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Gold springs?

Author: Ed Lowry
Date: 2009-12-16 15:41

While viewing another topic (Selmer center tone keys) I followed a suggested link to http://www.williepee.com/instruments1.html and read with interest the statement about Leblanc clarinets through the LX series that "The springs were gold, not blued steel." My high school clarinet, which I still own, a Leblanc L7 (the one with the L7 on the inlaid mother of pearl) has gold colored springs which I assumed were either gold plated or brass. Looking at them now, I doubt that they're brass, since, 40 some years later, they're not tarnished. But I'd still bet on them being plated steel, not gold. Does anyone know?

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Gold springs?

Ed Lowry

2009-12-16 15:41