Klarinet Archive - Posting 001050.txt from 1998/01

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: LeBlanc basses
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:37:15 -0500

Having recently played a LeBlanc for the Khachaturian piano concerto
(fantastic!) I can say that I really liked it. The high notes weren't quite
as good as the Selmer Paris ones, but that could be because the LeBlanc was
not new where the Selmer was only about one or two years old. (Not that I
needed the upper register for the Khachaturian, but I used them in another
work). The LeBlanc also had a crystal mouthpiece, and its lower note
fingerings were slightly easier to get my hand around than the Selmer Paris
- I do have small hands though!

Anna