Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2011-06-23 02:18
Perhaps Larry Bocaner (who has been playing a semi-custom Leblanc for many years) will correct me, but to the best of my knowledge all Leblanc bass clarinets (including Vito, Normandy and Noblet) up through the 425 model are essentially the same acoustically and (mostly) mechanically; I believe it's only the 430 model that's different in that it has an automatic double register mechanism. My opinion of the majority of the Leblancs is that, marketing/branding aside, they are really student/intermediate instruments, because they have a single register vent (NOT to be confused with the pinch-Bb vent), and tend to play stuffy and sharp in the low clarion register, and thin-sounding in the upper clarion, because the single register vent is too much of a compromise at the outer ends of the clarion register.
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