Klarinet Archive - Posting 000900.txt from 1998/09

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Best Clarinets
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:20:32 -0400

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Roger Garrett wrote:
> Chicago Symphony Orchestra - reknown for having the finest and loudest
> brass section in the world today - has four clarinetists.....two on
> Buffet, one on Yamaha, and one on Opus.

Funny thing is - I personally endorse Buffet without trashing other brands
(except in the case of LeBlancs basses ^_^ ), but I don't know who the two
Buffet players in the CSO are. I know who Combs and Yeh are, though.
Know why? Because we get this:
"Combs plays a LeBlanc! Wow!"
"Yeh plays a Yamaha! Ooh!"

Ever hear ANYONE say "Smith plays a Buffet! Cool!" I've yet to see that,
and I think it's because up until 1990ish or so, it was a given that most
professionals played Buffets, I guess. I mean, hey, I could be wrong, but
I just saw a whole post on pros who use Selmers, and I've seen similar
posts for LeBlanc and Yamaha in the past. Never for Buffet, though. Go
fig. ^_^

(Out of curiousity - what does Sabine Meyer play? Dave Shifrin?)

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
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