Klarinet Archive - Posting 000962.txt from 2003/03

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key of A maybe
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:22:05 -0500

Joe West <west.12@-----.edu> writes:

>I must admit that my Artley does raise a few eyebrows when I mention it.
>They made a big mistake somewhere down the line, as for me I took
>my mouth piece to the second hand music shop, and tried out several horns
>I believe they were a Vito, Bundy, Buesher? and the Artley . Not the big 4
I
>know but I stopped at the Artley. I could get big sound out of the Artley,
is
>that a fit description, hard to describe but the Artley really felt easy to
>play.

>I should have kept on trying out different horns, hard to do when you are
>grinning like the Cheshire cat. It was the first one I ran across that
agreed
>with me. Maybe I suddenly developed technique, which is possible.

Could it be that the Artley was just the horn with the least leaks?

Don Yungkurth

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