Klarinet Archive - Posting 000715.txt from 2003/08

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Welcome to the Buffet lunch....
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:12:52 -0400

I had to subscribe from here as well as from Comcast. Sarnoff won't let
anything go out via SMTP attached to an outside server, e.g., Comcast.
Not to get into the brouhaha around Sobig-F, somehow the hysteria seems
a bit overblown. And so instead of wasting time on someone else's
server I'll waste time on theirs.

Anyway...the instrument debate.

Buffet again. This is a Church and there is dogma? I have heard that
Buffet is dominant in New York. A bei gezint. However, people out of
New York, especially in LA and (I've heard) Boston, reportedly would
kill for a used Selmer: when I sold my CT at the end of December I went
to bed owning a clarinet and awakened to learn it had gone on Buy It Now
to a guy in Los Angeles.

I don't think Larry Combs or Eddie Daniels are eating at the Men's
Shelter because they favor Leblanc.

A quiz--Two former clarinetists in the Metropolitan Opera orchestra play
or for awhile played Leblanc and Selmer instruments: can you name them?
The prize? You ARE kidding, aren't you? If I could afford a prize I
could afford an R-13:-).

The other day when I half-seriously suggested getting another old
Centered Tone, because of the big bore, to learn to play klezmer, I was
told a trifle snootily by someone whose face presumably was straight
that Buffet is the standard. "Apres Buffet, le Deluge." Or Everyone
Plays Buffet. No they don't. A couple of subsequent posters (I can
read from outside, just not reply) pointed out how life in Europe is a
bit different. Hell, life HERE is a bit different once you figure out
there's more than one herd to belong to. At this point I'd rather give
Sid Glickman $125 for a used Albert system horn that will do what I'm
looking to do.

Gervase de Peyer plays Buffet? Peter Eaton, I presume.

Jonathan Cohler plays Buffet? Last I heard it was Luigi Rossi.

This is not a knock on the R-13 itself. I played one exactly once for
fifteen minutes, and I liked it a great deal. But I liked both the
Selmer Recital and my old CT better. "The equipment you know is the
equipment you like," said the photographer Djon Mili. The Noblet I've
got now is adequate for someone with my non-skills, but it's still
ruined for me by the Centered Tone, not by some sogno di Buffet. In the
meantime, the genuflections at that particular altar are getting really
old.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] The standard for professional clarinetists

> Dan,
>
> All of the studio and jazz players I know use Buffets. All of my old
school
> buddies from North Texas, doing show work....use Buffets. I know it's
not
> more than a local sample...but it's easy to check around and find out
what
> the active professional players are using.
>
> Forest Aten

--
Kenneth Wolman
Proposal Development Department
Room SW334
Sarnoff Corporation
609-734-2538

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