The numbers mentioned were produced in the year shown. December Buffet Crampon Year of manufacture and serial number Wilhelm Heckel The serial numbers for the older years are drawn from www. Serial is the next to be completed with the next available. Benson Bell Currently, Ben and four employees produce an anticipated 15 to 20 bassoons per year.Ĭurrent orders result in a 12 to 16 month waiting period.
Serial numbers as at the start of the calendar year. That apart, the instruments are the same, as are the serial numbers. Apart from that, little or no value was or is attached to them under the Eastern Block system. The only function of the numbers was during the production. Amati Serial numbers were never kept when Graslitz was part of Czechoslovakia. This means that a bassoon with a serial number from late might easily be completed or delivered in early The delivery dates are much more accurate for firms that add the numbers to their instruments at the end of the production process. Making a bassoon involves a few hundred manufacturing stages, any of which might delay the manufacturing process. One factory might number the instruments at the start of production, after which the parts will be kept together at all times, but the delivery dates can then start to diverge. There are various points during the production process when a number can be given to a bassoon. So these numbers should not be taken too literally.
