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Old Evette time of origin

Author: Clarinetists_Named_IZZY
Date: 2015-02-19 00:48

I recently got into both this forum and restoring old clarinets. That being said. I was talking to a guy I play clarinet with in my high school marching band and he said he bought this clarinet off ebay for $15, baffled by this I asked if he could bring it and show me. he said that if i wanted it i could have it as long as i traded a old j and d hite mouthpiece i used to use in middle school. he brought it to school the next day and i noticed it had quite a smell so i said either someone sucked at maintenance or its old. it was in this ugly green and white carry all case, I opened the case up and seen a buffet looking logo that said Evette from what i can gather on the internet evettes are the predecessors to student model buffets. story aside, this clarinet is an evette "sponsered by buffet" ABS clarinet on a limb and axious to get rid of that mouthpiece i accepted his deal. when i got it, it was highly dirty, the lower of the trill keys was drastically bent, from what i could tell it needed about 5 pads to be playable, tenon corks were old and worn, and overall adjustments were needed bad. so far i was able to bend the trill key back to normal, shine the keys shine the body and get rid of the smell. ill have springs pads and adjustments done professionally. but the one thing of it all that stumps me is the model number is F18305 but it was disappearing so i could be wrong. i cant seem to find the model number to date it. but then again ive been having trouble finding any buffet records. any help on this would be great

-IZZY

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