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Re: Leblanc Dynamique

Author: NOLA Ken
Date: 2023-06-11 19:10

This is the first time I have read anything anywhere about the Classic line having ever been produced as a "large bore" clarinet. I'm interested in a source for that. I have a Classic II (serial number indicates a 1967 production) that has a bore the same as the large bore Dynamic H and my Pete Fountain model (15.0mm). I've been told by a really expert tech that it was supposed to have a 14.80mm bore. In light of things said elsewhere on this bulletin board I have come to assume that it was one of the clarinets re-bored by Leblanc USA. It gave my college (late-1960s) clarinet teacher (a Leblanc artist and former student of Bonade) fits; he finally gave up trying to find a barrel and mouthpiece for it that would play to his expectations. Tuning was always a bit wonky with it until I returned to playing fifty years later and finally found a couple of setups that work nicely.

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