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Author: Bill
Date: 2003-06-21 02:08
Idle weekend curiosity--does anyone have the name(s) of any mid-century players who used Selmers? After all the discussion about Benny Goodman using Buffets for his classical recordings (and I'm still not 100% convinced about that!), did any famous names use pre-Series 10 Selmers for what they used to call "legit" work?
Bill.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-06-21 04:11
Gino Cioffi and most of the clarinet section of the Boston Symphony.
JJM
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Author: Bill
Date: 2003-06-21 12:57
Thanks! I had not remembereed Cioffi. I'd like to get more of his recordings--I only have one, of the Brahms sonatas.
Bill.
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Author: William
Date: 2003-06-21 15:14
The late Anthony Gigliotti of the Philadephia Symphony Orchestra played Selmers.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-06-21 16:55
Bill said: "After all the discussion about Benny Goodman using Buffets for his classical recordings (and I'm still not 100% convinced about that!) . . . "
Neither am I! I was just looking at some of the pictures of Benny playing with various classical groups from the book Benny: King of Swing, and many of the pictures are candid shots of him playing (therefore not a publicity shot where he would be required to endorse a particular brand). In the pix where I could make out the logo on the clarinet, there is one of him playing with the Budapest String Quartet and another of him playing in an "informal chamber group" where you can see the Selmer logo on the top joint. There is another photo of Benny and Bartok where I can't see the logo on the clarinet, but he is playing one of those "stretchy" Selmer ligatures.
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Author: Bill
Date: 2003-06-21 18:30
Right--the point was made that the LP jackets and such were part of his Selmer endorsement, but that his mouthpiece was on a Buffet when he actually recorded. Again--I doubt, but in a previous thread this was debated. I do know BG played many makes--B&H and Leblanc among them.
Also, on Gigliotti--I had also believed he was a Selmer player, but then started reading how he designed the 10G after his 21,000-series Buffet. Facts seem scarce!
Bill.
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Author: rbell96
Date: 2003-06-21 19:26
I believe Victoria Soames-Samek uses Selmer instruments.
Rob
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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2003-06-22 09:35
Guy Dangain, ex principal at Orchestre National de France uses Selmer. (His successor, Alessandro Carbonare uses Selmer too, but that is besides the point)
Stéphane.
After you've heard a work by Mozart, the silence that follows, this is still by Mozart.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2003-06-22 13:23
When I met Benny in the late 1960s he was having his Buffet worked on by Murray Snyder, a NYC repairman. It was a fairly new Buffet, which I tried before he arrived, at Murray's suggestion. The horn was very free-blowing with a dark richness to it, obviously a great choice whoever picked it out.
When Benny arrived I was trying my clarinet after Murray made the necessary repairs. Benny liked my reed and asked if he could have it, I told him it was my only good reed, so I declined to give it up. He took his horn from Murray, untried, and left. Years later I heard him play in NYC and he was using that Buffet.
JJM
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