Klarinet Archive - Posting 000470.txt from 1999/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Vintage clarinets
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:45:12 -0500

At 07:57 PM 11/11/1999 -0800, Chris Ms Stein wrote:
>
>Why is it that people are so skeptical when it comes to vintage
>clarinets? I just bought an old 1929 Selmer Brevette A clarinet, and it
>works pretty well- just wondering, thanks!
>
Because, as everyone knows, all clarinets sucked until God appeared to
Robert Carre at Buffet and revealed to him the R-13. :-)

The old Carl Fischer A clarinet I recently picked up has the sweetest and
most in-tune altissimo I have ever experienced. Older may not necessarily
be better, but it is not necessarily worse, either, as long as the wood is
good. The bores tend to be larger, and the intonation tradeoffs different,
but major makes like Selmer made their reputations with those earlier
models. They can't be all that bad!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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