Klarinet Archive - Posting 000338.txt from 2004/06

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?ferengiz=E2de_dani=EAl_shawqy?= <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] scandal
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:09:45 -0400

Some brands might have been bad even back then, but mind you, your book was
published during the war and French cane ("freedom reed") was getting so
hard to come by that people even tried plastic reeds! Also many
clarinettists used to make their own reeds from blanks of certainly varying
quality. Still, opening a modern Vandoren case (not to mention Rico or Lavoz
or other junk reeds) I can rarely use more than 2 reeds out of 10.
I tried all kinds of reeds and the very best I ever had are the old Esser
"handapprobiert", far excelling anything made today. I also still use twine
as a ligature (as do many German players; for some reasons obscure to me the
Austrians don't...) and its much better than all the metal and plastic crap
people use today (which I tried, believe me! I still have a huge trash pile
in a corner somewhere...). It gives more even resonance and can be more
subtly adjusted. It also feels and looks much less vulgar. Try first, think
and then judge, please.

Best wishes,
danyel

(To our American friends: Please try to get rid of the Bush Junta soon!)

----- Original Message -----
From: Ormondtoby Montoya
To: klarinet@-----.org
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] scandal

So I've decided that reeds must have been _much_ worse back in those
days --- really terrible, in fact. (and you used string for a
ligature)

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