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Re: For collectors of old Buffets

Author: vintschevski
Date: 2022-04-30 04:12

Thanks again! The detail in those records is amazing, what a super resource.

I wonder, though, how we know for sure that a BC clarinet that doesn't have Made in France on it was actually made in France. How, indeed, do we know for sure that a BC clarinet that does have Made in France was actually made in France? Not that I'm raising doubts, I mean literally that I'm interested in how we know such things for sure.

Which leads to me ask:why was Made in France stamped on clarinets? I had some vague ideas about this floating around in the back of my mind based on some reading at some point which I can't recall well enough now. Was it a legal requirement arising from some international trade agreement? Or was it just an advertising thing based on the perceived superiority of French-made clarinets and recognising the huge English-speaking market?

And while we're at it, I'll toss in another question: when hard rubber clarinets were first being produced, was it the assumption that such clarinets would be of lesser quality than wood clarinets, or was it the intention (originally, at least) that the hard rubber clarinets would be just as good as the wood ones?

Just tossing these questions up for consideration, I'm ignorant of the actual facts of the history of these things.

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