Klarinet Archive - Posting 000579.txt from 1999/11
From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk> Subj: Re: [kl] Vintage clarinets Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 04:03:52 -0500
it seems my old Buffet B flat waw not made in the late 20s, as I had
thought, but 1897!!! (This is according to the "cjsax" website - has
anyone else seen this?) This seems to put it into the vintage category,
without question.
Roger Shilcck
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:45:12 -0500
> From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Vintage clarinets
>
> 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
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> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>
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