Klarinet Archive - Posting 000408.txt from 2000/10

From: Kathleen Williams <kwilliams@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Changes to Elite and other Buffets
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 07:42:22 -0400

In regards to trying Rossis, I tried a couple at the Clarinetfest earlier
this year, and although I didn't have a huge blow on them, found them to be
very good. Because Luis Rossi hand makes them, a lot of problems you find
on Buffet clarinets disappear. I was having a discussion with my teacher
who plays Rossi clarinets on the subject of the high D sounding too bright
with the E flat key on, and he said Rossi instruments don't need the E flat
key in order to be in tune and are not as bright. I did try the Buffet
Elite for a couple of days, and though it is very nice, I could not get the
warmth of sound that I get from my RC Prestige instrumets, the long B
sounded of completely different timbre, and I wasn't going to pay A$7000 for
an instrument. I think no matter how much tinkering you do to an
instrument, certain notes are always going to be a problem, and you will
have to make adjustments in an ensemble situation to make allowances for the
tuning problems of other instruments.

Kathy Williams

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