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Normandy 4 : Old vs New

Author: Ben Shaffer
Date: 2015-10-09 18:46

quick question. Ive got what I believe is a "newer" Normandy 4.
Its got the logo with the bell or Mtn image with the ring around it.
I'm interested in picking up what I believe is an older Normandy 4... its got the logo that looks like an oval guitar pick. So do these older Normandy 4's in general sound better, worse or the same as the newer ones?
I've been told that my newer model was made after there was a fire in the Leblanc factory which destroyed all of there good grenadilla wood and they had to hustle and find some more grenadilla on the open marker which was said to not have been aged as well.
The older Normandys one would assume then were made using better aged wood
If Clarinets are like Irish Blackwood Flutes older stock wood made a hugh difference in the sound of the Instrument
so are the older Normandy 4's better sounding than the newer?
Ben Shaffer
GSO,NC

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