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Help identifying a clarinet

Author: bbogart
Date: 2007-01-16 00:42

Hello all,

I have been surfing around the web for a while now trying to identify this clarinet I have. I am primarily a Saxophone player so I don't have too much knowledge about these things. If anyone could point me to some resources that would be great.

A couple of things are clear. All the pieces are not originally from the same horn. The barrel is marked Buffet-Crampon C12, and the bell is marked Paul Renne-Paris.

The problem is that the body of the instrument is not marked except with the serial number 5042 and the word France. If it is a Buffet that puts it in 1930, but seeing as the barrel and bell are from different instruments I'm not confident that the body is necessarily even one of those.

I have pictures on my website if you would like to take a look. http://www.benbogart.com/clarinet/

Any help identifying this would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben

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Re: Help identifying a clarinet

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-01-16 05:59

I can't help identifying it, but the LH pinky levers mounted on a single rod is a very unusual thing and worth mentioning.
If I could only remember where I have seen that...

--
Ben

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Re: Help identifying a clarinet

Author: skygardener
Date: 2007-01-16 06:48

I have a few old clarients with the LH keys on a single rod. It was very common until the 40s.
bbogart- Just looking at the way the clarinet looks, it was made after the 30s, but before the 40s. It was not made by Buffet. It looks like a fairly well-made clarinet, though.
-S

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Re: Help identifying a clarinet

Author: joannew
Date: 2007-01-16 11:38

I have a clarinet by G. Leblanc with the same single-mount LH keys. It's not a production model (no serial number), but I think it is from around the early 60s, when makers were experimenting with double register key mechanisms. So perhaps yours could be more recent than 1930s.

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Re: Help identifying a clarinet

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-01-16 12:47

When looking at used instruments, I avoid buying a clarinet that's a "marriage"--with parts from different brands or models--because a marriage often has serious, unsolvable intonation problems.

Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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