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Re: What model Leblanc is this

Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2013-09-11 07:42

sonicbang wrote:

> I have read the whole story of the Leblanc factory from a
> number of sources. As I remember the reason for reboring was
> the long shipping time from Europe to the USA. While the
> instruments were on the ship, stored without temperature and
> humidity control, most of them was badly warped and become
> unplayable when arrived to their destination. Reboring was a
> poor attempt to restore them to playing condition.
>

I've seen many explanations for why the reboring procedure was done. Tom Ridenour, who was a former chief clarinet designer for Leblanc, said that Vito Pascucci would customarily rebore clarinets up to a 15mm bore because he believed that small bore clarinets were a passing trend and that players really wanted large bore clarinets that played with a bigger sound. He seems to suggest that Vito made the claim that the bores had shrunk during shipping to justify his reboring project.

http://clarinetcorner.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/its-really-a-big-bore/

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