Klarinet Archive - Posting 000351.txt from 2006/10

From: "Blake Arrington" <klarinetteman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Leblanc/ Backun clarinets
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:28:27 -0500

Nancy,

Where did you try them in New York? Was there a conference or something?

Thanks,

JBA

>From: Nancy Buckman <eefer@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Leblanc/ Backun clarinets
>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:31:16 -0400
>
>For the enquiring minds:
>
>I apologize. I hit the send key without checking the address. The message
>was supposed to go directly to Terry. In addition to his request for what
>I thought was amazing about these instruments, he asked for information on
>pricing and where he could try them. I was going to give Terry my reasons
>when I receive the sales information he requested. I sent the original
>post that I had tried at a time when I didn't have enough time to
>elaborate. I thought people might like to know that the instruments are
>forthcoming and that they are everything that has been said they would be.
>The answers have arrived so I will include them all in this post.
>
>What I found so amazing about the new instruments is that they responded to
>my every request from them. They came out of the cases and were put on the
>table. No adjustments were made to them. People just picked them up and
>they all played. I was there for many hours and they played as well at the
>end of the day as they did when they came out of the cases (after many
>people had handled them each). And this was true of the cheapest model to
>the most expensive model. Pitch was excellent from end to end. Response
>from note to note is even. I could easily make large interval leaps with
>no difficulty, something I usually am not very good at. Dynamic ability is
>unequalled in my opinion. I could play so softly without effort that I
>could only be heard by sitting within a foot or two of the instrument in a
>quiet room and that was from the lowest note to the highest. Articulation
>is very easy, with adequate resistance, but not so much as to make the
>instrument hard to play (just right, as Goldilocks would say). The keywork
>is exquisite. On the two more expensive models, some of the keywork is
>adjustable. There is also a C#/G# trill extension which is convenient.
>And best of all, the key rings fit my small fingers (so my fingers don't
>fall through the rings). I play a Selmer 10S A clarinet in orchestra and
>am always having to wear finger cots to keep my fingers from slipping
>through the rings. I have a latex allergy and this presents a real
>difficulty for me.
>
>So there is my impression of the new clarinets. If it sounds like a sales
>pitch, well then call it what you will. In my opinion, there is nothing on
>the market at the moment to equal them, unless you pay a lot more than you
>will pay for these instruments.
>
>The Cadenza model, which is the cheapest, has no competition. At @$1600,
>nothing Yamaha, Selmer or Buffet has in their lines plays as well, IMO.
>The Symphonie, at @$3000, I like better than anything any of the big three
>offer and feel it is the best of the three models for the money. The
>Legacy, which is the flagship model, is very nice. But at @$6000 I don't
>feel the differences between the middle and top models warrants such a huge
>increase in price. As for where to try them, WWBW will have them in stock
>within a few weeks and you can try them there.
>
>Nancy
>
>Nancy Buckman
>Orchestra AACC
>Opera AACC
>Baltimore Flute Choir
>eefer@-----.net
>
>
>
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