Klarinet Archive - Posting 000815.txt from 2001/01

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Advice on Lyon C Soprano clarinet
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:24:35 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Don Gross
> La Canada, California...who's been absolutely delighted with a
> 40-year old
> Noblet C clarinet I purchased several years ago in the lot of C clarinets
> that was sold by the Pomona (California) Unified School District thru
> Whitaker Music in Long Beach, California to Bob Gilbert and
> Mitchell Lurie in
> LALALAND. Got mine before the price doubled -- to all of $400.
> If you play
> serious orchestral gigs, your C-clarinet should be the equal of
> your Bb and A.
>

Hey Don... Don't knock those C clarinets. I bought one from that batch
before anybody else had a chance to get to it at RDG. My girlfriend at the
time got its companion (one number off in serial number). It is a great
horn and I have taken it out on numerous professional gigs.

The rest of those horns went to some pretty major players around the LA
area. I seem to remember that David Howard of the LA phil got one of the
others... I can't remember who got the rest.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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