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What does it mean when a clarinet hasn't a serial number?

Author: ruben
Date: 2020-02-20 22:02

I'm interested to buy a Buffet e-flat clarinet for the modest sum of 350 euros-second-hand of course. It has no serial number. What does that mean? I have in my collection an excellent Leblanc B-flat and the reason it has no serial number is because it is a prototype (the keys are neither nickel nor silver-plated).

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com

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Re: What does it mean when a clarinet hasn't a serial number?

Author: Liquorice
Date: 2020-02-21 00:06

Guy Chadash once sent me a Bflat clarinet without a serial number. It was an instrument he had just made and he hadn’t put the serial number on yet. When I bought it he asked me to ask my tech to put the number on. I never did, so the instrument has no serial number.
But I imagine a Buffet without a serial number has a different story.

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Re: What does it mean when a clarinet hasn't a serial number?

Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2020-02-21 02:12

It usually means it was made before 1885. Not necessarily a bad thing but check the intonation carefully.

-Jdbassplayer

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