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 Re: Leblanc symphonie clarinets
Author: Bill 
Date:   2006-09-24 13:14

I have a Symphonie (no "model") serial number 4971. I bought it because, like a bozo, I sold a beautiful L7 that I had purchased from the original owner - no less than Jack Silver. Talk about regrets!!!!!

I am forever hot and cold about older (pre-1970s) Leblancs. Now, Vytas is working on a "Dynamique" for me right now that may just change my mind, but I find these instruments (and yes, even that L7) even, responsive, and in tune but somehow lacking "guts" in the lower tones. A crystal mpc. goes a long way in correcting that, but when I switch back to my Symphonie after playing something else for a few weeks, there's this period of adjustment ... like, "Where's the beef?" But then, after a few days, the wondrous evenness amazes me. The altissimo "belongs" to the rest of the scale ... there is no pronounced change in the sound or feeling when playing between registers. In that sense, my Symphonie did recover for me the qualities I loved about my L7.

I look forward to having "the twins": a Symphonie and a Dynamique from the same period.

Bill.

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)
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