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RE: Buying new clarinets

Author: paul
Date: 2000-01-06 22:10

...drool, drool.

I too envy your situation like a dog smelling a T bone steak. Enjoy your fantastic opportunity.

I believe that instructors of this caliber could easily detect and fix almost any minor adjustment problem right there on the spot. My pro tutor took my good premium pro grade horn and tweaked it up to maximum performance with a gentle bend of a key here, slight shaving of a cork there, etc. That's called "regulation". Almost any very good tech can do this, too. What the seasoned pros can do is pick out the very best clarinet from a batch of over several dozen horns of the same make and model, and do it strictly by ear and by touch.

Feel free to let your tutors take your horn and test it out. Let them put the horn through its paces. True, they can probably make a garden hose sound good. However, they will know what to look for to bring out the best in any horn they are given. Watch and listen as they are checking it out. You will see the transformation of a good horn into a great horn.

If you take lessons from these gentlemen for a while, you will notice the same transformation in your playing ability.

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