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Re: New contrabass clarinet

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-08-18 14:37

I don't think the material makes any difference. With my handmade mouthpiece and barrel, I defy anyone to hear a difference in tone between my well-tweaked R-13 and a plastic Vito. I can feel a difference, but it's not huge.

I watched as Jon Manasse picked out several instruments for his students at Eastman, and the ones he chose were all Buffet Greenline Festivals.

Alexander Williams told me he played a silver Bettoney Eb in the New York Philharmonic, and Gaston Hamelin played silver clarinets in the Boston Symphony and for his famous recording of the Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie.

Kalmen Opperman spent hundreds of hours undercutting the toneholes and doing other voicing and tuning work on a plastic Linton/Bundy Eb contra and a Vito BBb contra. These are true professional instruments, as you can hear on the Stoltzman CDs, where Dennis Smylie plays them in the Opperman Clarinet Choir. I've played them both, and they're in a different league from anything else.

Ken Shaw

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