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Originally Posted by camelbrass  I think you'll find that your Bach Anniversary edition would have been relatively new when you bought it. It's not an older Elkhardt.
If I remember rightly, they were numbered outside the normal Bach numbering sequence.
Regards,
Trevor |
That's correct. The anniversary edition Bachs are numbered differently. I don't believe there was any such thing as a reverse leadpipe on New York or Mt. Vernon Bachs, either. An old Bach with that number would be a very early New York Strad from the 1920's, quite rare.