Klarinet Archive - Posting 000907.txt from 1998/09

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Best Dixieland Clarinets?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:13:52 -0400

>I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask-- how does the Elite sound with
>jazz clarinet? How about Dixieland/trad clarinet in particular? I've been
>toying with the idea of getting a really piercing, bright (ie, lots of high
>overtones) clarinet for my Dixieland gigs. Right now I have a student
>Buffet B-12 (the clear one with the copper keys-- thank you Francois &
>Buffett for creating something so gorgeous) which was fine for an amateur
>like me. But I'm getting to the point in my development where I want a
>more "pro" horn, something that can cut over the trumpet-trombone-tenor sax
>combo. I've tried the Buffet R-13 and Festival models. They are both
>lovely horns, but not the sound I'm looking for. I'd like to try the
>LeBlanc models, particularly the Pete Fountain model, but haven't had a
>chance. Anybody out there have experience in this particular clarinet=
niche?

Yo, Lisa! Once again...I'll sell you my Center Tone for $3,000, cash or
certified check:-):-). Actually, no joke, I have heard the CT is MUCH
favored among precisely the kind of clarinetists you describe, Dixieland
and old-time jazz players, because of the .587 bore. If you stick
something like a Vandoren 5JB mouthpiece with a 1.5 or 2 reed on the
sucker, you can blow out your windows. The amount of volume that horn
produces with that setup is scary.

Ken

Kenneth Wolman "From the Meadowlands":
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"Whenever a person is able to keep intact those small particles of his real
self, nourish them, and then channel their energies into another direction,
he redeems himself because redemption means to salvage oneself, and each man
does this whenever he restructures the 'noes' of his life under the
commanding impulse of a new 'yes'."
--Jose I. T. Id=EDgoras, "Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint"

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