Klarinet Archive - Posting 000409.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Changes to Elite and other Buffets
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 07:42:23 -0400

At 12:42 PM 10/09/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>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 always find the use of the Eb key to be dependent entirely on the
circumstances surrounding the note itself. Depending on who I am
performing with, what the temperature is, what the volume of the note is,
what the length of the note is.........always seems to have some effect on
needing that key or not. Most of the time I do not need it on my Buffet
R-13 Prestige. On the R-13 A (not Prestige) it is the same.

> 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.

You shouldn't have to pay that much! But you are right about there always
being an issue. It is the same issue mouthpiece makers run into - a
tradeoff on "free blowing" vs. "edgy or non-edgy" sound. Occassionly you
make one that is right in the middle - and that is the really good one!
With instruments, some note is going to be a problem. Most performers can
adapt and mask the problems of an instrument, but it is how hard we have to
work to mask the problems that determines which instrument we like to play on.

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

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