seeking info on Cabart Bassoon

[Dale Ellis]

This newsgroup seems my most likely Chance of finding anybody who might know
something about the history of the Cabart brand name. Well, I ran across
a bassoon with the name Cabart stamped on the bell joint. It is a Heckel
system instrument that was evidently made in Paris. Has anybody heard of
such a thing? I can find no reference to Cabart ever having made a bassoon
even though I have spent hours searching. The serial number is 315. I
did run across a reference saying that Cabart was a decent maker who was at
some point bought out by Loree. Is this something that was made before the
Loree buy-out or after? And either way, is this purported to be a good
piece of work?

Thank you for any info at all

Dale Ellis
dale...@att.net

[John Howell]

I've only run into the name as an oboe maker, not as good as Loree,
but quite good even so. In fact I owned one for a while. The low
serial number suggests that they may have made a few bassoons,
perhaps as a favor to regular customers. I'm sure there's a double
reed mailing list somewhere, but I wouldn't know how to find it.

John

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