Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 2004/10

From: "Jim Lytthans" <lytthans@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Ab Clarinet
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 19:45:06 -0400

<Dan Leeson enquired about the value of a Leblanc Ab clarinet.>

Leblanc does offer an Ab any more on their website, but Freeport Music
http://www.musicalinstruments.com/Categories.asp?Category=Clarinets&Family=LL
Is selling a new Leblanc LL Model 1176AFS Ab for $4789 (ouch!). They also
have the 1176DS D clarinet for $3742 (another ouch!).

Unless your a member of the Carbinieri Band of Rome, why would one want an
Ab? I heard this Roman Police band many years ago in the Piazza San Marco
in Venice. They used two (!) Ab clarinets, and they sounded beautiful. I
guess if they didn't, they would be farmed out to another band or shot at
sunrise.

Seriously, I've thought about buying one... just because! Several Italian
clarinet makers produce one.

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Jim Lytthans
Anaheim, CA
http://home.earthlink.net/~lytthans/index.html

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