Klarinet Archive - Posting 000406.txt from 2000/11

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Wood clarinet
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:53:34 -0500

<><><> Katie Lind wrote:
why does it happen (you'd think a clarinet is a clarinet) and how can I
get through it quickly?

<><> I wrote (too hastily):
All clarinets are not the same! [snip]

I should also have said that a top notch clarinetist (I'm not one
of them) can play almost anything. This is why Neil asked you how much
experience you have. Perhaps if you had more experience, you could
compensate for the differences between your 'new' clarinet and your
previous instrument.
As an example, recently my instructor played the
instrument+mouthpiece that I was using and she told me: "Bill, I can
play this, but I'd rather not even though I'm a competent clarinetist."
She steered me to a different mouthpiece, and that is how I ended
up with the combination of mouthpiece, reed, and ligature that I'm
playing now.
For the same reason, sometimes a person chooses a different barrel
than the one that came with the instrument. In fact, if you bought a
'swap meet' clarinet, you may not have the instrument's original barrel.

Another point is that you didn't@-----. $30
is almost a freebie unless it was done out of friendship. There's no
guarantee that the technician really fixed everything that needs fixing.
There's *much* more detail work involved in overhauling a clarinet than
I imagined until I watched my own instrument being overhauled by someone
who really knew what he was doing. $30 buys only a 'quick once-over'.

Cheers again,
Bill

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