Klarinet Archive - Posting 000735.txt from 2002/10

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] introduction
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:39:40 -0500

What is the difference between the 5RV and the 5RV Lyre?

>From: "WILLIAM SEMPLE" <wsemple@-----.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] introduction
>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:38:30 -0700
>
>I would like to introduce myself to this group. I have played clarinet
>since
>I was 12 -- I am 56 now, but for several years did not play because of a
>house fire that destroyed all of my instruments -- collected directly and
>inherited from my father.
>
>My father was an avid player -- and served as Pres of te Detroit Symphony
>Orchestra for twenty years. He was good friends with two clarinet players
>of
>some note: Paul Schaller, the DSO principal, and Benny Goodman. Dad died in
>1988.
>
>I have studied with John Yeh of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with
>John
>Colbert, who graduated from the New England Conservatory and studied with
>Harold Wright. So I think it is fair to say I know something about the
>instrument.
>
>In getting myself back into shape again, I ran into some good luck. I had
>so
>many clarinets floating around before the fire that I lent one to my
>brother's son, who was playing in his school band. It was a 1958 Buffet Bb
>R-13, which I have since learned was played by Schaller in the DSO for
>twenty years from 1956 to 1978, until he switched to a pair of Prestige
>models.
>
>I now have two and a half sets: a pair built pre R. Caree (around 1949),
>having a substantially larger bores; Schaller's instrument; and a pair of
>R-13's I bought over the past five years.
>
>I really like these instruments, and wonder what all of the ruckus is about
>concerning the "fancier" models. Seems to me these R-13's sound just fine
>and are really responsive.
>
>I use a couple of set-ups. I play a Van Doren 5RVLyre with 3.5 and 4 V-12
>Van Dorens, and an honest injun Chedeville that I am still having problems
>fitting reeds to.
>I love the wood in the V-12s. I usually wind up doing some shaping and
>sanding of the backs, but only touch ups, and have gotten some wonderfully
>consistent results.
>
>I play classical, swing, and dixie.
>
>I look forward to following the listserve.
>
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