Klarinet Archive - Posting 000626.txt from 2006/03

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Did I play the Proto-type??
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:08:12 -0500

At the recent clarinet event at Peabody, (February 26th) I was trying some
of the Backun-Morales mouthpieces, when Morrie handed me a clarinet and
said,"play this and tell me what you think". I did and this clarinet was "wicked
good". I usually don't like to know anything about equipment that I'm trying,
because I know I have my own built in biases, but this instrument didn't
resemble anything by any of the big 4 (Buffet, Yamaha, Selmer or Leblanc). It's
intonation was better, it's tone more consistent, and the mechanism just felt
great. Mind you this was a first impression from a few minutes of playing, but
I remember a really this clarinet as being really fun to play.

So I'm asking, could this have been a Leblanc proto-type? or was this an
instrument an awesome repair being returned to a client?

Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with
Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently
by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in
Clarinet performance

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