Klarinet Archive - Posting 000369.txt from 2006/10

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: New LeBlanc by Backun Clarinets
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:22:36 -0500

In a message dated 10/23/2006 8:07:10 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
gregory@-----.com writes:
**Has anyone tried these new clarinets from an actual production line where
they will inevitably be made? Or are these pre-production specimens?**

I have! These were made on the production line and not "reworked" or tweaked
by Morrie. I know this for a fact because I unboxed, put them together and
played a few notes on each horn to make sure they were working. Shipping can
sometimes do weird things to a clarinet. They all played great. They were all
shipped out of Kenosha!

I had a chance to play the "symphony" for about an hour and I found it a
very enjoyable instrument to play. I sounds like rich Belgium chocolate.
Nancy heard me play it, I'm sure she would agree, rich dark, creamy chocolate.

I also had a chance to try the "Cadenza"( the lowest price model). I did a
real scientific test. I opened a new pack of Rico reserve 3.5s. I put an
unadjusted reed on the "stock" mouthpiece and the clarinet played! It sounded
great, played very intune. There would be no reason to get an after market
mouthpiece for any high school or first year college student.

I did like my mouthpiece and reed on the cadenza better than the stock one,
but only because I had a reed adjusted to it. I could have gotten just as
comfortable on the stock cadenza mouthpiece, if I did a little reed work. I
didn't feel like messing with that in NY, as I was there for the Eddie Danials
concert. Which was just plain awesome.

Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with
The Atonement, 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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