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Author: bwilber
Date: 2006-05-11 20:28
I found an old Acker Bilk recording with the song Stranger on the Shore at Goodwill the other day and am enjoying listening to it. I have the sheet music for it and am having fun trying to play along with it. When he gets to the higher notes, he sounds almost like he is playing on a trumpet but when he palys the lower notes, his sound is a lot like my clarinet but it has a sound that seems to me more metal sounding. I have read on the bboard that he played a Boosey & Hawkes 1010 clarinet. Is it that this particular clarinet has that distinctive of a sound or is it his skill? Pete Fountain also has such a distinctive sound to his playing and I wonder if a person bought one of his clarinets that has his name on it, that they could get that kind of sound out of the clarinet or is just many years of playing that produces that sound? Does anyone know if Acker Bilk still plays the Boosey and Hawkes Imperial today or has he changed clarinets? Thanks for any help with my questions.
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