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Re: Serial Number Dilemma

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2016-12-05 00:31

Technically an instrument should be tuned with the exat joints that will go with it for the rest of time.
In a truly handmade craft instrument the maker selects the joints that best match visually and acoustically together and then completes the final tuning and adds the serial numbers.

However the amount of fine tuning that takes place at the R13 level is probably debatable.

The mistake sounds like a simple logistics error at the retailer and you have to bear in mind that there will now also be another R13 outthere with mismatched numbers.

When I bought my Leblanc pair from Bill lewingtons in 1960 exactly the same error had occured and on the Bb instrument the serials of upper and lower were just 2 apart. This was quickly fixed by going back to the shop.

It would certainly affect resale value.

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