Klarinet Archive - Posting 000990.txt from 1999/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Gigliotti on a Buffet
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 16:40:07 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>

> ... Maybe it's
> nostalgia, but Gigliotti's remains the most spectacular recording of the
> piece I've ever heard: ...
> Assuming the recording was made somewhere around 1955, what would he
> have been playing? My guess was a Selmer Centered Tone (geez, why don't
> *I* sound like that??:-) with that .587(?) bore.
>
Gigliotti played on Buffets (set up and maintained by Hans Moennig) until
his involvement began with Selmer in the late 60's.

> I gather the 10G was built to his specifications

It was designed to his specifications with, I think it's fair to say, his
Moennig-modified Buffet instruments as a starting point.

Karl Krelove

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