Klarinet Archive - Posting 000366.txt from 2005/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jazz instrument auction
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:35:56 -0500

At 11:25 PM 1/21/2005 -0600, jmesseng wrote:
>I have to wonder if Benny ever really played that instrument. I was
>fortunate enough to be able to spend some time with him after 1972, and
>even played his instruments sometime in the mid-70's. He was in the
>process of trying a new Buffet that Hans Moenig had sent him and wanted
>someone to give him a comparison with the Moenig Buffet that he usually
>played. The older one was much better than the new one (and both were far
>superior to production Buffets), and that was always the instrument he
>played whenever I heard him from that point until he died. He always
>carried his clarinet in an old beat up student case and you would never
>know what he was playing unless you could actually see the name on the
>clarinet. At a later date when I was trying clarinets at the Selmer
>factory in Elkhart, his picture was on the wall as one of the directors of
>the Selmer Co. and I mentioned that I didn't believe that he really played
>Selmers. They said they knew that, but as long as he didn't make a point
>of saying he didn't play Selmer, they really didn't care. I think the
>last Selmer clarinet he played was a CT model.

Goodman's image was used in ADVERTISING for the Selmer Series 9. I do not
know what he actually played on the recordings made in 1967 and 68, but the
album cover of his Weber 1st and 2nd Concerti shows him holding what is
clearly a Series 9. It is not unreasonable to expect that the Selmer
Company would PROVIDE Goodman with instruments, but whether or not he used
them was his choice.

Bill Hausmann

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

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