Klarinet Archive - Posting 000824.txt from 2003/08

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <Matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] The standard for professional clarinettists
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:19:20 -0400

Well in my neck of the woods (or at least the players that I know) there
are more Boosey and Hawkes instruments than anything else. More than
everything else put together I would guess.

Matthew Lloyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Ragnhild Kristine Brekke [mailto:rkbrek99@-----.no]
Subject: Re: [kl] The standard for professional clarinetists

Hello,
to continue this "thread" of "local samples": I'm a college
clarinettist, we
are 6 clarinettists here and all of us use Buffets. All of the previous
clarinet-students I know from the past 4 years here use Buffets. Our
teacher
uses Buffets, and I believe all of the clarinettists in the military
band
(recently gone civillian) that he plays in use Buffets. In the
clarinet-choir
we have here - comprising of around 25 clarinettists - there are almost
exclusively Buffet players. And I also know Jazz-people who play
Buffets.

Ragnhild
Kristiansand, Norway

Quoting Forest Aten <forestaten@-----.net>:
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Leeson" <leeson0@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:35 AM
> Subject: [kl] The standard for professional clarinetists
>
>
> > David Blumberg wrote:
> >
> > "Buffet is still the standard for Professional Clarinetists and
> > probably always will be. Sure there are others but put em all
together
> > and they still don't equal Buffet's Industry Marketplace. The best
that
> > the competitors can do is to demonize the Buffet to try to get their
own
> > model sold."
> >
> > Dave, your preference for clarinets is your own business and no one
can
> > criticize you for your choice. But when you suggest something about
> > what the industry marketplace has and does, you have to be able to
> > defend that statement other than by a smell test.
> >
> > What evidence do you have that jusifies such a bold statement? Isn't
it
> > enough for you to say that you have Buffets and like them? What high
> > ground is taken when you make statements about an industry
marketplace
> > without providing statistics that confirm you assertion?
> >
> > If you consider the world of professional jazz players, or non
> > Americans, I believe your assertion cannot be sustained.
> >
> > --
> > ***************************
> > **Dan Leeson **
> > **leeson0@-----.net **
> > ***************************
> >
> >
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