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Re: Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet

Author: felix  Date:   2022-05-02 08:41 To update an eight year old thread ... I have a Whitehall clarinet, but it's not wood. It appears to be hard rubber with a steel bore in the upper stack. My serial number is G13010, and is located on the back side of the lower stack. On the opposite end, and in very, very small print, appears a stamp "Made in France". I could only read it with a strong eye loupe. I guess this dispels the Yanagisawa theory. I see no other marking or logos. That notwithstanding, I compared the clarinet's Whitehall logo against the ones used on Yanagisawa saxes and it is 98% identical. This tells me that whoever owned the Whitehall names (Wexler?) had different sources for clarinets and saxes. What houses, in France, were manufacturing clarinets besides Selmer, Buffet, LeBlanc, and SML? And of those, which were doing stencils? SML and LeBlanc, for sure. The word "blanc" in French means "white" in English, does it not? Is Whitehall a play on words, meaning, "From the halls of LeBlanc?" BTW, this clarinet plays fine, but I'm only a sax guy trying to learn clarinet, so what do I know?

Topics	Author	Date
Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet  new	clonestar	2014-02-26 23:34
Re: Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet  new	David Spiegelthal	2014-02-27 00:21
Re: Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet  new	clonestar	2014-07-27 07:17
Re: Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet  new	felix	2022-05-02 08:41
Re: Identifying a Whitehall gren. clarinet  new	Ursa	2022-05-07 21:59

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