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Re: Mfg. Year of Normandy 4

Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2018-01-23 19:39

Ursa,

"Leblanc reset the Normandy serial number counter back to 1 when the Normandy models 5, 7, 10, and hard rubber 11 were introduced."

Interesting. I suppose this must have happened in the 1950s. How did you find this out? Following the timeline of adverts and price lists? I haven't investigated the matter very much and thought the serial numbers with a letter were part of the same series but the letter meant something. Early Leblanc clarinets also have a letter in the serial number. Since these letters appear in all the early generations of Symphonie clarinets (up to 5 digits Symphonie 3) there was no similar reset of the serials.

"It would thus not be unprecedented that they would do the same thing again when rolling out new Leblanc, Noblet, and Jeffrey models."

I don't think so. Evidence speaks against it. For example, the L300 has serials going from around 54000 to 58000 (my outlier A clarinet excluded) and the L7 from 28000 to 45000.

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