Klarinet Archive - Posting 000661.txt from 2003/02

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] playing different instruments
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:59:37 -0500

Very true, Mark. And probably the only alternative is a 2 year waiting list
and relatively astronomic prices, cum Loree or Haines or (I'm having a brain
cramp - I can't remember the equivalent top bassoon maker) while they do all
that hand work at the factory that Moennig did in his shop and that now
Brannen and other wonderful technicians have learned to do routinely.
Despite our previous gripe sessions on this subject, I doubt if
mass-produced instruments like the ones that roll out of the Buffet, Selmer
and Leblanc factories can ever be totally finished products, guaranteeing
that the clarinet techs will always have a job.

I still can't think of the bassoon manufacturer's name - I know it will come
to me the second I hit the <send> key but it's driving me crazy! Oh well,
here goes...

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] playing different instruments
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raycraft [mailto:raycraft@-----.com]
> >
> > My repair guy, (who I also play with in three ensembles,)
> > insists that the modern R13's are not anywhere near as
> > good as the older ones, say, up to maybe mid 1960's. So,
> > what is it about the older ones that is "better?" Maybe
> > they just don't make ANYTHING like they used to
> > anymore?
> > Maybe that's why you gotta have 'em Brannenized?
>
> Back when the R13s were first introduced people sent them to the
> lengendary
> Hans Moennig to have them "fixed up".
>
> Nothing's changed ...
>
> Mark C.
>
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