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Author: BradleyHardin ★2017
Date: 2005-07-13 05:22
I have a wooden A. Fontaine clarinet serial number 6530. It there any way I can find out when (or approximately when) it was manufactured? I've checked the Web a lot, but havent' found too much.
Also, if you have any information about Fontaine clarinets, I would be happy to hear from you.
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-07-13 13:46
I don't have much to go on other than having renovated a few clarinets labelled "A. Fontaine -- Couesnon", but from those markings and general design features I believe that these were student/intermediate clarinets made during the 1950s-60s probably by Couesnon in France, for an American importer using the name "A. Fontaine". Please take all of this with a large grain of salt, however.
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Author: Michelle
Date: 2005-07-13 21:53
David Spiegelthal wrote:
> Please take all of this with a large grain of salt, however.
How about a chunk of rock salt? Would that work?
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-07-13 22:09
A granite boulder would be best of all.
Have we gone off on another ridiculous tangent here?
Just wondering.
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Author: Michelle
Date: 2005-07-14 01:11
David Spiegelthal wrote:
> A granite boulder would be best of all.
> Have we gone off on another ridiculous tangent here?
> Just wondering.
Not if we make it a resonite boulder with silverish keys strategically placed on it. Then we could carve "A. Fontaine" on it, carbon-date the boulder and turn this right back around to the first post.
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