Klarinet Archive - Posting 000328.txt from 2001/12

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Reamers
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:53:22 -0500

Tony:

Pardon my delay in commenting. I've been swamped with work. A
few years ago I commented on my "received truth" that Muehlfeld's tone
wasn't so good. From your experience with the copy of his clarinet, can
you draw any conclusions on that subject?

Allen

At 09:16 PM 11/19/01 +0000, you wrote:

>One such adjustment saved my life, metaphorically: in that by adjusting
>the bore and hence the twelfths on my newly arrived and still-changing
>copy of Muehlfeld's Ottensteiner instrument, I found I could at least
>attempt a performance of the Brahms Quintet a few years ago, 'live' on a
>late-night RAH Promenade concert.

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