Klarinet Archive - Posting 000625.txt from 2003/08

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tony=20Pay?= <tony_pay@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buying E-13/R-13/S2/Edware instruments and the English tradition in general
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:39:05 -0400

--- Matthew Lloyd <Matthew@-----.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> Glad to hear that you have an English Instrument now - it worries me how
> the English clarinet tradition is being swallowed up by the French
> tradition. Nothing against the French here at all - but an English
> clarinet is different. My dear Mother, hearing my play the same piece on
> my newish RC and my twenty three year old Edgware, preferred the sound
> of the Edgware!

I don't think that the Howarth clarinet at all exemplifies the 'English
tradition'. I think that the Eaton clarinet probably has been used by some
players who one might tentatively want to characterise as exemplifying the
English tradition -- but I don't have a personal experience of that.

> I've always wondered how many pairs an international player would have -
> more than one I understand - Tony P - any comment?

At the present state of play, apart from earlier instruments (Simiot, Grenser,
Ottensteiner, Piatet), I own R13, DG, Yamaha, Selmer 10S, and Howarth.

At this precise moment, I am playing Howarth with a customised Clark Fobes
mouthpiece. But in addition to those already mentioned, I have played, in
concert and on recordings, Boosey and Hawkes 926 and 1010, EJAlbert,
Hammerschmidt, Buffet BC20 and RC.

Mouthpieces similarly used have been: Boosey and Hawkes; Vandoren crystal, B45,
5RV, 5RVlyra, 11.1, B40 and I'm sure others; Hite, O'Brien, Jon Steward
customised Selmer and Mitchell Lurie, and... many others.

It might sound like desperation -- but it's just an ongoing variation of where
I've liked the 'problems' to be, plus, perhaps more importantly, where I've
liked the 'stimulus' to be.

I should say that none of this, *matters*.

Some of the greatest players have only ever owned one pair of instruments, and
one mouthpiece.

Tony

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