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Re: Jean Baptiste

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-12-28 13:21

It's beyond unlikely this Jean Baptiste is a Chinese clarinet, with a New York City Board of Education stamp for 1964! The New York schools couldn't have purchased clarinets or anything else directly from China then, and because product imports from China (then known in the USA as "Red China") directly into the United States were against the law at the time, it seems unlikely that a major school system would have circumvented the law to buy Chinese clarinets through an importer in another country that did trade with China. (I was in high school across the bay from San Francisco in 1964, during the Lyndon Johnson administration, before Richard Nixon began to relax the bans against trade with China. None of the new merchandise available for sale in San Francisco's Chinatown at the time came from mainland China. A few things came from Taiwan and Hong Kong, but nearly all the "Chinese" souvenirs were tagged, "Made in Japan.")

Lelia
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