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Re: "E" proceeding my serial # .... HELP PLEASE

Author: Orinoco
Date: 2014-08-10 16:33

Given what is said in this wikipedia page, it seems the Buffet-Crampon people made the Evette clarinets as student and intermediate level clarinets - they are old clarinets, preceding the B10 and E11 respectively.

"Until the 1980s, only professional level clarinets carried the Buffet name. Lower priced clarinets for the beginner and intermediate market were branded "Evette" and "Evette & Schaeffer", respectively. For a time the Evette clarinets actually were built by other manufacturers under Buffet's sponsorship, and these instruments are marked "Evette sponsored by Buffet". By the early 1970s Buffet was making the Evettes in their own factory in Paris, and about 1979 manufacture was moved to a Buffet-owned factory in Germany. Evette & Schaeffer clarinets were made in Paris. Use of the Evette and Evette & Schaeffer brands ended about 1985, when the company began using the Buffet name on all its clarinets."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffet_Crampon#Evette_and_Evette_.26_Schaeffer_clarinets

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