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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-03-31 22:51
Buffet clarinets
Vandoren reeds
Lelandais mouthpiece ...GBK
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2003-04-01 02:23
Adjustable thumbrest or fixed?
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Author: ctt489
Date: 2003-04-01 02:48
50 years+ with the same mouthpiece. Thats must be a record.
He is a legend!
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-01 03:02
Stanley Drucker plays on Leblanc clarinets, he also uses a Chedeville Lelandais facing with No. 3 1/2 reeds. Years ago at a master class he said he uses Vandoren cane.
David Dow
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-04-01 03:06
D Dow wrote:
> Stanley Drucker plays on Leblanc clarinets,
He's currently listed as a Buffet artist ...
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-04-01 03:07
Stanley has a fixed thumb rest on most of his clarinets.
He does own some newer Buffets with the adjustable screw-type thumb rest, but he doesn't much fool with it.
His equipment is quite normal, and he doesn't work on his standard Vandoren reeds. If they don't play out of the box, they're history!
He tried quite a few reeds at a date we did together a few years ago, and nothing was working in that cold studio, so I handed him one of my better reeds, and he was very grateful and thanked me.
He sounded great, as always, and read up a storm on that date.
The next day, on our last session, he handed me a very odd, handmade barrel, thick, and made of Rosewood. It was a gift to me for helping him the day before with his reed problem!
He is a legend, in the true sense of the word, a one of a kind, truly unique.
May he continue to play great here in NYC forever!
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: Ed
Date: 2003-04-01 12:25
"May he continue to play great here in NYC forever!"
from the looks of it, he will!
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-01 12:38
He may have changed CLARINET models since the 80s when I attended a masterclass of his.
David Dow
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2003-04-01 12:43
He is amazing. I believe when he started with the Buffalo Philharmonic he was still in his teens!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2003-04-01 13:03
D Dow wrote:
> He may have changed CLARINET models since the 80s when I
> attended a masterclass of his.
Yes, indeed, he may have ... but you used present tense, not past.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-04-01 17:48
Stanley newer played Selmers in the Philharmonic.
He may have plugged them years ago in an ad, or at a clinic.
I have played next to him for 20+ years, and he tries lots of new horns, but always goes back to his Buffet, the one with his name engraved on it!
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: 68fordfalcon
Date: 2003-04-02 17:19
He wins for 'best clarinet ad' from the 80's when he had a cigar in one hand and a Leblanc over his shoulder. A close second would be Pete Fountain's 'it has that fat sound' ad.
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-03 14:26
Drucker is a type of player who sounds great on no matter what clarinet! His technique is wonderful.
David Dow
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Author: cyso_clarinetist
Date: 2003-04-03 14:51
okay this is probably pointless to say. But my teacher gave me a copy to the fall 84' klarinet because of an article on debussy's premire rhapsody.. anyhow to the point. I saw an endoresement of him playing Leblanc L300's. I know it's 19 years old, just thought i would mention it still.
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-03 19:00
The Leblanc clarinets are quite wonderful that he endorsed....I tried some of these L300s at one point and had quite a time trying to decide whether or not to buy these instruments. I settled on a pretty bad set of R13s which I later replaced....thats another story.....
Drucker certainly has one of the nicest sounds around, coupled with a very fine playing style and sense of nuance....
David Dow
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Author: Ed
Date: 2003-04-03 19:20
If I recall the ad correctly, Drucker says they are nice horns, and that people will be playing them. I don't believe he ever said HE played them. Let us know what it says, it has been years since I have seen that ad.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-04-03 20:00
Attachment: Drucker.JPG (1068k)
Here is a copy of the original Drucker/Leblanc advertisement...GBK
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Author: Ed
Date: 2003-04-04 03:53
The one I was thinking of was with Stanley in all black, a cigar in one hand, clarinet in the other over his shoulder. It may have been an earlier ad as I recall.
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Author: chuck
Date: 2003-04-04 15:46
GBK: Again, thanks for a trip through your encyclopedic info. If you are not the world's all-time number one pack rat, number two can see nothing but dust. Can you really get a car into your garage? Very much enjoy your contributions here. Chuck
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2003-04-04 16:14
Thanks for the nice pick GBK!!!
As a backgrounder into this thread I reccomend a few nice recordings of Mr. Drucker as a way of hearing him:
Debussy Rhapsody Berstein sony classics
Mahler 9 sony Classics berstein and my favorite
beethovemn 6 Pastoral Berstein sony Classics
He is certainly one of my favorite players!
David Dow
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Author: larryb
Date: 2003-04-04 20:20
he recently recorded complete brahms clarinet music (2 sonatas, cello trio, and quintet)
it's an excellent recording - I think his playing of the brahms is very personal and superb
i forget the CD label, but you can find it
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-04-05 01:21
A quick check on his bio told me that he started learning clarinet at age ten. And was principal of the Indianapolis Symphony at age 16. That's six years from the first time he touched the instrument. It seems to me that he could be considered a virtuoso.
If anything, this gives me hope. While I'm not sure if I can be a principle clarinet of a major symphony six years from now, I'm a little ahead than he was at age ten, so in six years I should be able to accomplish SOMETHING!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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