Klarinet Archive - Posting 000000.txt from 2004/03

From: Ed Lowry <EdwinLowry@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Colored clarinets (formerly Costco)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 00:33:13 -0500

The late Brian Schweickardt used a blue Vito Dazzler for the opening of Rhapsody in Blue with the Sacramento Symphony a few years back. I'm told he had some of the tone holes undercut before playing it. He also switched to his Buffet for the remainder of the piece.

Ed Lowry
Sacramento

Rebecca Brennan wrote:

> My band director tells us stories about when she goes to help with
> other bands. She was telling us that she went to this one middle
> school and saw this girl sitting there with a bright blue clarinet.
> When she asked the band director about that, the band director told
> her that the clarinetist that plays the most scales gets to play that
> THING all week. Then I raised my hand and asked if it was a JinYin and
> we started laughing...really hard.
>
> -Rebecca
>
>
>> From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
>> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
>> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:10:23 -0500
>>
>> At 08:28 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the gold-plated version of these "clarinets".
>>
>>
>>
>> I beg to differ here. The JinYin clarinet is not the best instrument
>> to be buying, but at least it plays reasonably well. The Simba and
>> First Act instruments don't even work. I have one student playing a
>> JinYin and he is doing OK. The instrument plays well enough for him
>> to progress on for now. I have told his parents that he will need
>> something better in about a year's time, but for now his bright green
>> JinYin will do. I am not pushing JinYin here, just saying that the
>> one my student is playing isn't too bad as a starter. The problem
>> with it though, is that you can't advance very far with it. It won't
>> accept a better mouthpiece and is very difficult to play above the
>> staff (the latter might be fixable - I haven't wasted any energy
>> trying though).
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> Nancy Buckman
>> Principal Clarinet / Orchestra AACC
>> eefer@-----.net
>>
>>
>>
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