Klarinet Archive - Posting 000291.txt from 1999/07

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Clarinet
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 10:56:58 -0400

At 10:25 AM 7/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi. I want to buy a new clarinet. I am thinking about a wooden one, but what
>do you reccomend? What company is best?
>Derek

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Here we go again,
I here those trumpets blow again....
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"Best" is what you like. "Best" is what plays well for you.

Investigate instruments from:

Buffet
Selmer
Yamaha
Leblanc

Try some horns from all of them. Prepare to spend several hours in a good
music store: you'll be parting with a good chunk of change and you want to
be sure you love and can play for years on the instrument you walk out
with. Wooden horns come in different price ranges based on wood quality,
keywork, etc. You may not need a top-of-the-line instrument or you may be
particularly flush this week:-) and want one Just Because. The
professionals on this list (I am not one of them) play instruments from all
the makers mentioned above.

There are also European-made instruments that are harder to find in the
States unless you are willing to try instruments via mail order or live
close to Elkhart, Indiana. I'm thinking of Peter Eaton, Howarth, Rossi,
and Patricola.

Ken

Kenneth Wolman kwolman@-----.net
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"For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and
wrong."
--H. L. Mencken

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