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Re: old Leblanc LL

Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2018-04-20 16:57

I found a review by Gibson of the Leblanc LX clarinet in the Feb-Mar 1990 issue of "The Clarinet":
"At last U.S.A. players have an opportunity to discover the Leblanc which should have been available to them long ago. This reviewer has in the past noted that such instruments as the LX, advertised with a bore of 14.6 mm., were actually measured at bores as large as 14.73 mm. as delivered by
Leblanc U.S.A. No more; the practice of reboring at Kenosha, done for whatever unlikely reason, has apparently ceased. Perhaps it came from a long-held belief that the 15 mm. soprano clarinet was still the best for all clarinetists, which has not been true for almost 40 years."

If this reboring theory was right there should be LL instruments with 14.6 mm bores, especially outside the US. I haven't seen any such instrument yet.

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