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Author: johnwesley
Date: 2023-05-10 01:34
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Apparently no one has any list of Leblanc serial number prior to 1964. I did find a website (picture attached) indicating 1950-1953 serial numbers began with #1135. Serial number on my Dynamique is 713 !! So I assume it was made prior to 1950. I'd like to pin down the date my clarinet was made just for my own knowledge. Any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance.
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Author: ghoulcaster
Date: 2023-05-10 04:04
Early Leblanc serial numbers are very strange, and there seems to be different sequences. All those records were destroyed in a factory fire in 1968.
Your horn is more likely from somewhere around 1953-1955.
Also I question the info on that website, 8xxx seems much too low for 1964.
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Author: johnwesley
Date: 2023-05-11 00:24
Thanks ghoulcaster. Seems that serial numbers are a problem for a lot of manufacturers. I'd forgotten about the Leblanc fire in '68. What a pity.
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Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2023-05-15 01:20
>> 8xxx seems much too low for 1964
True. However, I have seen photos of a Leblanc L300 with serial 21xxx. An instrument of a model that was introduced in 1982 had a 1964 serial number! The simplest reasonable explanation I can think of is that this was an early prototype that was built from an old body that had gotten a serial number but never made it through the production.
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