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Re: Buffet Crampon Paris and Charles Bay in business together?

Author: gwie
Date: 2016-02-09 03:39

One of my students has a set of 70's era R-13's that were modified by Charles Bay, with the same marking above the serial.

A colleague of mine once got scammed in a private sale during college (by her teacher no less) where an instrument with the same markings (C. Bay above the serials) and a number of interesting modifications was passed off to her as an R-13. It was actually a modified E-13 with the model number rubbed out.

Edit: Just to be clear, I am not in any way claiming that Charles Bay did any of his work with the intention to scam people. No. I've just run into too many shady people out in my area in the past twenty years or so with Bay-modified clarinets trying to pass them off in sales to unsuspecting students as being more special (or different models) than they actually were.

Post Edited (2016-02-11 10:11)

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