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Re: Pete Fountain

Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-09-03 20:00

I am familiar with the Leblanc Dynamique > Dynamic > Dynamic 2 (I owned one for a while) > Dynamic H / Pete Fountain > Big Easy series, all variants of the same basic "big bore" acoustic design. (Any disagreement with that characterization?)

But I was not aware of plastic/composite/rubber Vito horns bearing Pete's name. Though I have to say Leblanc is/was certainly capable of doing that, if the contract arrangements permitted it- perhaps even if they didn't, LOL. Selmer put Benny Goodman's name on cheap clarinets that (I'm pretty sure) were nothing like the Centered Tone and other models that he actually played. (I had one and quickly resold it- played OK but nothing special about it that I could tell.)

I would be very interested in a less expensive Vito "Pete Fountain" model if indeed it shared the acoustic design of the Dynamic series. Any chance of that? Anybody know the whole story? I'd appreciate a few photos from the OP.

Stan in Orlando

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