Klarinet Archive - Posting 000073.txt from 2010/01

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] NAMM Show
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:56:34 -0500

Wayne, you have longer arms than I have ;-)

Gary
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Wayne Thompson wrote:
> Gary wrote his more thorough response as I was writing my small one.......
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> Gary, I reach up, grab it down, and play it. No one has ever even looked over. :) Be careful, though!
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> The Patricola booth is indeed a pleasure.
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> WT
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 9:33:29 AM
> Subject: [kl] NAMM Show (was: Re: [kl] Any New Developments in Bass Clarinets?)
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> This show is intended for manufactures to make deals with distributors
> and dealers. While there are people trying instruments, the big
> manufactures (Buffet, Conn/Selmer) generally have samples of what they
> sell, not everything. However, Morrie Backun has been in the Conn/Selmer
> booth the last few years and he is always friendly.
>
> In the Selmer France booth they alway seem to be deep in conversation
> and ignore the people walking around and looking at the instruments. For
> the last few years I have wanted to try their low C bass on display but
> it has been up on a platform and I am afraid of knocking other
> instruments down if I try to reach it without help.
>
> Some of the smaller manufactures like Patricola and Orsi-Weir (I am not
> sure that company still exists) have been in small booths and welcome
> people who want to talk and try things. I think that is about it when
> it comes to professional level clarinets.
>
> Then there are the Chinese importers who generally have samples of what
> they make that you can try.
>
> While I haven't been to ClarinetFest since 2003, the manufactures and
> retailers that attend usually bring a lot of instruments to try and
> there is a lot of selling going on which doesn't happen at NAMM.
>
> I would really like to go to Musikmesse, but I don't think it is going
> to be this year.
>
> Gary
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> Nitai Levi wrote:
>> Is it significantly different from Musikmesse? I thought Musikmesse was great for trying clarinets, saxophones, etc. but it seems that most of the interesting ones are not in NAMM maybe?
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