Klarinet Archive - Posting 000127.txt from 2001/08

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] B45/B46
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 12:59:46 -0400

I used to play on B45 on my soprano clarinet (Buffet Crampon BC20, according
to teacher comparable to what in the USA was or is R13) and a Selmer
mouthpiece on my bass, I think it was a 6*, but am not sure anymore.
About two years ago I replaced both with a B44. Good sound, really
beautifull. Especially the squeaks were great. So I replaced them: a B40 on
the bass, that is satisfying, but not more than that, and again a B45 on the
soprano, to which applies the same. Then last October a pupil of mine showed
me his Nigun Feidman. To me it was love on the first sight. Thanks internet
I found out that was a Pomarico, so I contacted the firm in Italy. They let
me know this particular type of mpc was sold only by Feidman's staff during
his concerts. Upon my request if they knew where he would perform in the
next time - our band had a concert two weeks after - I got no response.
Until a week after I sent my e-mail: "snail-mail" handed me a beautiful
Pomarico Nigun. Just in time to get used to it and find a good reed to it.

I never was billed.

Really beautiful. But hard to stay in tune.

At the Dutch Single Reed Players' convention I met Bas de Jong, first
clarinet with the Rotterdam Symphonic Orchestra. He made me play some Zinner
mouthpieces with Viotti lay.

Perfect. Really perfect. I can play very, but really very soft on it, and
even in a big hall everybody hears what I am doing (is that what some on
this list define as a "good projection"?). It WAS expensive. Because it is
so perfectly in tune at all loudnesses i play it when I play in my two
bands. At home however I still use the Pomarica, because it has the more
beautiful sound, especially in the lower notes, the chalumeau register.

On the Zinner mpc I use at the moment a andmade reed with a very long life,
but I have some Vandooren German reeds strenght 3 at hand. With the Pomarico
use Marka reeds, strength 3, and also, as I don't want to simply throw them
away, my last Vandooren reeds.

But I am sure I will never again go back to Vandoren mouthpieces, though I
played them for almost thirty years now. As to that, Roger, I completely
agree with you.

Rien

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