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Author: Ken Mills
Date: 2005-02-11 22:32
Dear Leblanc;
I have possessed your Vito V40 for about 2 years and think that it is the best clarinet for a professional. It is the last of the large bore V40s. It is a secret that its material is as good as wood and it seems to have professional borings with an even scale from top to bottom. The Buffet R13 is famous for being able to play the high notes soft. On most clarinets, when a C arpeggio is played, the C above the staff sticks out too much while the long pipe C on the staff is stuffy. But not on your cylindrical bore V40. I had the auxiliary Eb-Ab lever added and the tone hole of the useless left hand sliver key filled because it is not good for three holes to enter the bore in the same length's space for the best smooth bore's air flow. I get a dark and very big (loud) sound with your Marca reeds.
Why stick to tradition? For jazz, you could just start that sliver tone hole and let a repairman finish it if requested (not much pitch flattening in that area happened to me when I filled it). You could also make the instrument pitched a quarter step higher. My Vito's barrel was 66mm, yikes. But now on my Vito 115mm from the top of the barrel to the center of the tone hole of the side trill key (second from the top) for throat A is as short as anybody needs to go (this is the best way to measure a clarinet if I decide to go around and do it, including the Big Easy that Pete Fountain uses).
I think that I am one of the best sounding clarinet players out there (now, if only I knew more notes).
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2005-02-11 23:30
But I thought I was the best sounding?!
We BOTH are - we both have Leblancs!
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2005-02-12 01:11
The high C only sticking out I attribute to clarinetISTS (myself included, though thankfully much less often than I used to), rather than clarinets.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-02-12 02:42
It's material is never as good as quality wood.
Not even close, don't fool yourself.......
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Author: ron b
Date: 2005-02-12 03:18
Both Albert and Boehm systems (and Simple System, by the way) make very good use of the left hand sliver key it if you've developed good practice time habits. At least in my experience it's a nice little addition. I know some folks don't like it and, in my opinion, go to the extreme of permanently closing it.
Why is that?
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Author: BobD
Date: 2005-02-12 12:53
"permanently closing it. Why is that?"
Ans.: Fat fingers, arthritis what else...But: why close it permanently...rather use a temporary closure.
Re Ken's comments: The V40 is a good solid horn but the Pete Fountain plastic is even better. But probably neither for pro symph. orchestral/chamber work.
"Not even close, don't fool yourself......." Probably a valid statement as it relates to professional symp.orch. or chamber purposes...or precise scientific purposes. But for a working doubler or band student plastic can be a practical horn.
Bob Draznik
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