{"id":25029,"date":"2011-05-10T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=25029"},"modified":"2011-05-10T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T16:53:09","slug":"some-interesting-pierret-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/some-interesting-pierret-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Interesting Pierret Information"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pierret Concerto with Virtuor circa 1930 Photography by H. Kahlke <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently saxophone historian\u00a0and Woodwind Forum<\/a> Administrator Pete Hales,\u00a0happened across\u00a0this interesting post<\/a> on a French blog about vintage musical instruments. The blog’s owner, Ren\u00e9 Pierre, wrote an article about the French saxophone manufacturer Pierret.<\/p>\n

What is very interesting in his post, is that Pierre has included a couple of catalogue pages from the 1960s that feature the Super Artiste<\/a> and the Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Ren\u00e9 Pierre has posted copies of letters<\/a>\u2014in French of course\u2014that were written in 1920<\/a> on the Pierret company letterhead. The letters are part of an exchange between the L. Pierret and Gaudet Deslauriers companies. Unfortunately since my French is sadly lacking, I don’t have any idea what they’re talking about. Anyone here want to translate?<\/p>\n

Just as interesting as this new print<\/em> material, is the most extensive Pierret recording that I have heard to date. Pierre has embedded a solo recorded on a Pierret Super Artiste alto. No word on who the player is, but it gives us an idea of what kind of core sound these\u00a0Super Artistes\u00a0have.<\/p>\n

The Super Artiste was one of the last model of horns Pierret produced\u00a0before it ceased operations in approximately 1972. My much older Concerto with Virtuor model has a much older style sound. It is a throwback to the 1920s and 30s sound you hear on the recordings of the day.<\/p>\n

So if you’re looking for some information on Pierret saxophones, do check out Ren\u00e9 Pierre’s Pierret page on his blog<\/a>. If you poke around in his site some more, you’ll find all kinds of other interesting articles about companies such as Dolnet, Buffet, and Noblet.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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