Klarinet Archive - Posting 000154.txt from 1998/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Benny Goodman
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:03:20 -0400

At 11:00 AM 5/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
>I have been told that Benny Goodman played on Selmer clarinets. True?
>
>Cindy

Selmer markets posters of some of the musicians who use/used their
instruments. There is a Coleman Hawkins, I think, for tenor sax; and
there's also a Benny Goodman.

The owner of a repair shop in the City, one of the few places in NY you can
pick up used Selmer Balanced and Centered Tone clarinets, told me Goodman
used to play a Balanced Tone. Now, this probably goes WAY back: I gather
the Centered Tone succeeded the Balanced Tone. What I'd still like to know
is what he was playing at that Carnegie Hall concert in January 1938.

Ken

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