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Re: Louis & Cl clarinets

Author: Chiron
Date: 2008-08-31 15:29

IanH - why do you want to dispose of your Louis clarinets? If they are anything like mine, they are superb instruments, and well worth that little extra midnight oil which needs expending on putting them into first class playing order, which is within your capability. Keep them and play them - you wont regret it!
kenb - many thanks for the information. Actually on going to the Shackleton catalogue on the web, I see that it lists 3 Louis instruments, though only the one numbered 120 is illustrateed, All three are said to be "circa 1923", which was actually the date when the Louis company appears to have started business, so that I dont think it can be right for the manufaccturing date of any of the 3 instruments listed. In my ignorance, I was not aware of the Shackleton colletion (although Sir Nicholas S. did look at my Louis instruments a couple of years before he died) and I am very grateful to be informed of it. What an incredible number of valuable instruments he appears to have collected! I look forward to further research.

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2008-07-23 08:28