Author: clarnibass
Date: 2022-01-15 09:19
Most I was able to find so far...
I thought the inline bridging trill keys is something they started making and stuck with it... but not sure anymore. So I thought this means this basset is earlier... but not necessarily.
According to the most info I could find, they changed from contoured Leblanc in the logo to straight in 1972, so this is before.
From the logo on the Clarinet Perfection page, there is no start date, but this logo with the G as part of the contoured Leblanc is the oldest, made until the 1950s.
The keys are a little tricky. First it looks like unplated nickel silver for the keys, but nickel plated neck and bell. The nickel plating is shiny, almost looks like new, and there's nothing to suggest it's not original (the engraving looks very nice and crisp). It's worn a bit on the top of the neck (the part perpenducular to the length of the neck).
One person posted a photo of an alto with the same "scheme" - Buffet style trill keys, and not really possible to tell from photos, but probably also unplated keys and nickel plated neck and bell. They don't know when it's from but a guess is also 1930s.
So 1930s is the best guess so far for this basset.
By the way at the very top of the upper section, in tiny letters, very easy to miss, engraved "Made in France". So this one was made in France.
I've read some older Leblancs might have mazac keys, or only for some of the keys. On this one, some parts of the keys are surprisingly shiny compared with how unplated nickel silver keys usually look like... so I'm not sure yet.
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