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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-03-25 11:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j2S7ZHi0X8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItU-0v6x2Xo&feature=related
Post Edited (2010-03-25 12:20)
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017
Date: 2010-03-26 17:06
Wonderful stuff -- interesting that he seems to be playing a full-Boehm-low-Eb instument!
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2010-03-26 21:09
These videos are a couple of years old.
Ivo Papasov plays a Selmer Series 10 full Boehm, which rumor says someone found for him in a music store in Australia. Having seen him play live, he uses ALL of those keys.
He is about 5' 11" and a mile wide, with very powerful looking hands, and short fingers. His clarinet, in comparison, looks like a soda straw.
He doesn't speak much English. All he could really say to me is "I am an old, old man." For an old man, most of us probably wish we could play half as well.
His musicians tend to be poker-faced about things - they are very, very disciplined but still have to work hard to keep up.
This acoustic performance was very nice. In concert, the sound checks are great, but once they start going for real, they crank up the volume much too loud for my aging ears. He starts playing, people start dancing, in their seats, up and down the aisles, everywhere.
The tag on the first video "The best clarinet player in the world". There are a couple of clips floating around where he drops out of Wedding style into jazz/pop and is very, very good. Then, he starts playing in Arabic tuning, with the same facility as before, quarter tones and all. Believe it.
The bottom line is: If your toes aren't tapping, check your pulse, big-time.
Post Edited (2010-03-26 21:10)
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Author: salzo
Date: 2010-03-27 01:04
Pretty amazing. its got to be the Bonade ligature (I think it is a Bonade).
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-03-27 12:32
Ralph -
If you have them, please put up links to his jazz/pop and Arabic clips.
Thanks.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2010-03-28 15:45
Ken,
There is alternative tuning in track 1) Mladeshki Dance on his "Balkanology" CD.
This is big time horsing around: Ivo takes his clarinet apart "immer kleiner", plays sax, plays clarinet and sax at the same time, plays frula through his nose, his accordion plays clarinet, but listen starting around 2:20:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TegH-80I4M
Regards,
Ralph
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