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 Re: Do clarinets improve with time?
Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date:   2004-06-04 06:00

In my experience, the bottom line is that dimensions somewhere in the bore or elsewhere usually change as a result of the wood moving over time. It certainly has been measurable over time with the clarinets that I've owned and others that I've measured. Either that's a good thing or a bad thing depending how it changes and depending whether the player adapts favorably or unfavorably to those changes.

For instance, Marcellus played a 1957 Buffet/Moennig A clarinet until he retired from Northwestern in the early 90's. It obviously changed in a direction he liked although he said it had lost a lot of it's initial resistance. On the other hand he went through numerous Bb clarinets while in the Cleveland orchestra because they had changed and didn't "hold" the sound as they once did.

I still maintain that the chances of the player changing their concept or ideal is by FAR less likely than the instrument changing. That is why so many professionals (at least where I've come from) change instruments. They find something better because they perceive a deficit in what they are presently playing because the instrument changes in a way not to their liking.

By the way, Drucker's Lelandais was periodically "touched up" by E. Matson over many years. And his clarinets were changed out too.

Gregory Smith



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