Hi,

Just a minute on the net and I found that it is an old Level Air. Must be
from the 60s

Toby
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby" <kymarto@...>
To: <MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:14 AM
Subject: [MouthpieceWork] Q about a bari mpc


> Hi folks,
>
> I have a mpc here that I am wondering about. It's a metal bari piece, very
> thin, with a black plastic duckbill instead of a bite plate. Seems to be a
> Brilhart, anyway around the shank it says "Designed by Arnold Brilhart",
> serial # 5169, then a 5 (must be the tip opening). Quite a high baffle
that
> drops off abruptly ala Dukoff. Looks to be a well made piece;
unfortunately
> I don't have a bari so I don't know how it plays :-(
>
> I've been watchng for information about something similar but haven't run
> across anything--just Brilhart "Tonalin" pieces, and was wondering if
anyone
> in the group could enlighten me about it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Toby
>
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Most likely made on May 1, 1969.

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--- In MouthpieceWork@yahoogroups.com, Keith Bradbury 
<kwbradbury@y...> wrote:
> Most likely made on May 1, 1969.

For two reasons, I think that the piece was not made on May 1, 1969.

First, I have a LevelAir tenor piece that I got in the early sixties 
and the serial number was "xx77". So that number could not represent 
the manufacture date. I suspect that Brilhart did not use the 
manufacture date as a serial number until sometime later.

Second, I would think that Brilhart would always use a two digit 
number for the day, so that they could tell a piece made on, for 
example, December 1 from one manufactured on January 21. Without a 
two digit day, both pieces would be numbered "121yy". With it, they'd 
be "1201xx" and "121xx" respectively.

It's interesting that the date numbered pieces start with the month, 
not the year. It gives the piece manufactured in January a lower 
number than the one manufactured the month before.

Gregg

Gregg's logic makes a lot of sense.  I know the early Brilhart LAs did not
use the date as a serial number.  But I do not think I've seen an example
with a leading zero in the date like "01".  As for the 121yy confusion, I
think they may have just avoided marking batches of pieces made on
confusing days.  But I do not know for sure.

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