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Author: Cyril
Date: 2000-01-05 03:46
I am going to buy a pair of new horns from Weiner sometime in March. I also intend to have lessons of Drucker and Neidich while in NY. Do you think they'll be able to help me choose one? Has anyone had any experience buying and instrument with the help of a professional?
I mean I know how to chose a fairly good instrument, but I just need a second opinion particularly about intonation and tone. What do you guys think??
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Author: William
Date: 2000-01-05 17:28
It's like you are going to God and asking him which church to join--Drucker and Neidich, doesn't get much better than that. But remember, they probably would sound good playing on pcv pipes (given a good mp, of course) and in their hands, any clarinet is going to sound good. You have to be satisfied with the instrument in YOUR hands. Play the perspective instruments for them. I would highly respect and value their advice, but also,if it is possible, before buying, I would recommend trying the choosen instrument in a performance situation--rehersal, etc. It is often easier to determine the true playing characteristics of and instrument in a real life situation. Good luck with your choicies and your lessons--I envy your opportunity.
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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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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-01-07 04:27
Good intonation:Selmer Signature(sounds dark)
Good tone:Rossi rosewood clarinet(one piece body).May sound very brighter.
French clarinet teachers often recommend to exersize A-clarinet to get good colon d'air(i.e. longer air column supportability).
Unlike William and Paul,I think Drucker and Neidich are not standard clarinetists in U.S. Especially Neidich,who trainded in Russia, seems to like very brighter tones and he uses straight tubing clarinet. Drucker's tone is transparent so to speak. Most American people like darker tones. Their choice of clarinets may be different from those by other pros.
If I have time and money, I would like to have lessens from Opperman,especially to learn his reed adjustment and finger-agility technique.Very cost effective.It may be better to clarify the objects to learn from Drucker and Neidich since it will be short period lessens.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-01-07 04:45
If you stay in NY for say 4-6 years, it might be better to chose one teacher,not two. It seems unwise to have a lesson from one teacher and another lesson from a different teacher with different teaching schemes in a same day.Teachers themselve will have big problems also.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-01-07 04:46
If you stay in NY for say 4-6 years, it might be better to chose one teacher,not two. It seems unwise to have a lesson from one teacher and another lesson from a different teacher with different teaching schemes in a same day.Teachers themselve will have big problems also.I would take Neidich,who is much younger than Drucker and most provably will not die during your stay in NY.
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