About Vito Pascucci letter
saintsday said:
About that to see the exchange in:
http://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?t=53895
Jazbrass: .../3 In 1927 Beaugnier joins Siour successor of Vault melts his company located 118 data bases Voltaire in Paris then with Mantes the City. For lack of a rigorous management in spite of a higher quality Beaugnier ceases its activity in 1967.
The factory is repurchased by Leblanc with the personnel and his production under its mark and its stencil key sets until 1973 will continue. Meanwhile Leblanc with open with Vito Pascucci a factory with Kenoska. Beaugnier is then associated Dolnet which takes it again personnel Lelanc and the French factory until 1986. Beaugnier will thus make sax under the marks Vito, Leblanc, Noblet, Martin and even some Yanagisawa without to count famous "the stencil key sets"
After its repurchase by Steinway in 2004, the loop is buckled Leblanc Inc. includes/understands maintaining the marks: Armstrong, Artley, Bach, Benge, Conn, King, Holton, Martin, Selmer the USA, Selmer Paris, Leblanc, Vito, Yanagisawa, PRIMA Sankyo, Scherl and Roth, Lewis, Glassel, Musser and Ludwig it is it that one calls the concentration capital intensive "World Company" /.....
and Pete Hales (Saxpics) answers:
You're copying and pasting SML info. Allow me to copy and paste more:
Citation:
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www.saxpics.com/sml/history.htm
*SML starting producing saxophones around 1934, 1935, 1936 or 1937, depending on which documentation you use -- SML reports on their website that they were founded on January 12, 1935. Fred Cicetti quotes the date of 1934 in one of his articles and suggests later that saxophone production may have started in 1937.
* Officially, SML says they stopped manufacturing saxophones in 1981 (Fred Cicetti mentions 1982 -- and this is supported by Nora Post). The last SML-labelled horn seems to have been produced no later than s/n 265xx and there appears to have been only King Marigaux stencils available until after 265xx. I've received an e-mail from someone who insists he bought his 27xxx Marigaux new in 1986.
* SML produced, at their highest maximum, 400 horns a year, according to an SML spokesman. It's entirely probable that this spokesman was referring to production of the Gold Medal, because production needs to be considerably higher to make the serial number chart work. Remember: in approximately 20 years they went from s/n 1 to 15xxx.
I've got a few more things on my website, too.
Regarding Leblanc purchasing SML, I believe that's a misinterpretation of Vito Pascucci's comments from several years back: he admired the SML, but he had the Beaugnier facility. Check out
http://www.geocities.com/harrir/saxophone/vito.html and the Beaugnier he's talking about that he wanted to reproduce is the Leblanc System horn. He's just equating it with being as good as SML (which is a matter of opinion).
Additionally, I think Mr. Pascucci confused his instruments: King was bought out by Seeburg and King sold the King Marigaux -- which was a stencil of the SML Gold Medal. I have not found any information anywhere that SML has, at any time, been bought out by a non-European company. Indeed, if you check the archives here, one of SML's product managers is violently opposed to the mere suggestion./ ......
