Klarinet Archive - Posting 000490.txt from 2003/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] C Clarinet-Alert
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:02:09 -0500

At 02:34 PM 11/30/2003 -0800, Jim Lytthans wrote:
>I owned a full Boehm Centered-Tone Selmer in the mid '50s. My folks paid
>full boat for it from the local store: $800. I never did like the horn,
>because of it's stuffiness and poor intonation, not to mention leaks caused
>by the articulated G#/Ab and the forked Eb/Bb mechanisms. The G#/Ab tone
>hole went straight through the middle tendon joint cork!. I did like the
>low Eb, though, especially since I was too poor to own an A clarinet.

Of course, Centered Tone models were available WITHOUT the extra
keywork. And they were good enough for Benny Goodman!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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