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Re: For collectors of old Buffets

Author: jdbassplayer
Date: 2022-04-23 02:01
Attachment: buffet logo comparison.png (479k)

Looking more closely at the logo it doesn't appear exactly the same. I'll try to attach a picture comparing it to my 6078 Buffet, also from 1931. The lettering is off (most notably the "O" in "Crampon) and the BC on the bottom is skew (On every Buffet I have seen it is centered below the A, not between the A and the P. Also the lyre is different. I have a feeling if Buffet was going to authorize instruments to be produced under their name they would at least send them the right stamp for the logo, this looks more like a poor attempt to copy.

>Apparently the company did, for a while at least during the 1930s

Do you have a source for that? I'm not doubting and I may be wrong but from what I understand Buffet didn't start outsourcing their lower model clarinets to other companies until the 50s. And even then they didn't use the original Buffet logo. Saxophones may be a different story but those were also marked Evette and Schaeffer.

-JDbassplayer

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