Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2000/03

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] New Eb Clarinet?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:43:17 -0500

In a message dated 3/1/00 7:15:38 AM Central Standard Time, cohler@-----.net
writes:

<<
We are getting ready to purchase a new Eb clarinet at one of the colleges
where I teach and I would like some advice on what would be the best choice
given that the primary concerns are:

1. Intonation
2. Quality >>

My eefer is a Buffet R13, purchased mid 70's new.

I got lucky. Bright sparkling **** crackling *** tone quality. AND a scale
that is very much in tune with itself.

I had to invent my own fingerings for altissimo F#, G, and G#. Sometimes I
hit the sliver keys (Last year, playing El Salon Mexico, I had to block the
RH sliver key, I hit it so many times in rehearsal it became a joke in the
orchestra.)

Other than those two things, my eefer is the best clarinet I own, or have
ever played. I haven't tested eefers in 20 years, but I can tell you, I would
start with Buffet.

I have had many offers to buy my eefer....but....to paraphrase the National
Rifle Association .......they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands"
(ewwww)

Walter Grabner

http://www.clarinetxpress.com
Hand Crafted Clarinet Mouthpieces:
Bb/A, Eb, Bass
Clarinet Reed Making Kit
"Making Clarinet Reeds By Hand"

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