Normandy model run, Normandys with the Buffet-style trill keys were offered at As a further cost-saving measure, the "Special" was equipped withĪngled, Buffet-style trill keys, mounted on three sets of posts. Introduced sometime later than the Original Normandy was the Normandy The Original Normandy can be found in unstained and black-stained finishes. Keywork, but some are known with bright nickel plating. Most of these instruments are encountered with unplated German silver The instruments were also marked "MADE IN FRANCE" at the top of the joints, "Normandy" in a narrow script font with serifs on the first and last letters. The Original Normandy had a logo with a narrow shield with a diagonal
Normandy lineup, the Original model featured inline "jump" trill keys. The throat G# and A keys, three sets of posts for the trill keys, and aĬomposite, rather than wooden, bell. It incorporated several cost-saving design features such as a shared post for The first Normandy model is commonly referred to as the "Original Normandy". These were very similar to the Noblet instruments By the late 1950's, wooden models without simplified The Normandy went through multiple revisions during theġ950's, with successive generations losing the simplifications used on theĮarlier instruments. The early generations of Normandy soprano clarinets had simplified keyworkĬompared to the Noblets. Normandy brochures include ample references to the instruments as being Noblet
Some of the early Normandy models are stamped "MADE by NOBLET", and early The Normandy was the entry-level wooden clarinet within the Leblanc range. The Normandy model lineup included soprano clarinets in B-flat, E-flat,Ī, and C alto and bass clarinets oboes, and flutes. Normandy was a marque within in the Leblanc range of musical instrumentīrands.