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Author: pplateau
Date: 2007-10-27 00:39
I am interested in your experiences with the LeBlanc Rapsodie, ya, I know many are more interested in the Bakun/LeBlanc Cadenza, BUT I want to know how you like , experience the Rapsodie? Some say intonation etc is marvelous for this price point, and I can obtain one at a VERY attractive price. Am thinking as a backup to an R-13 so I don't expect the Buffet sound, but who knows? I am going to try it on approval basis before I would buy. Thanks!
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Author: am0032
Date: 2007-10-27 12:30
I have 2 students that play on these instruments and I found them to play very stuffy and resistant. They don't play anything like an R-13. Maybe the one you try will play differently.
Adam
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2007-10-28 02:24
If it cost more than the current Ridenour clarinets, you could consider adding another instrument into the audition...
The Arioso/Lyrique clarinets are brilliant.
(Built to the specifications of the Opus designer, Tom Ridenour.)
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Author: Tony Beck
Date: 2007-10-29 13:46
This may be relevant to your observations. Recently I picked up a freshly overhauled Couesnon Monopole. With my regular mouthpieces (a refaced HS* and Vandoren V-13) it was quite stuffy and resistive, especially in the low register. After struggling awhile, I tried a Grabner K-14. The transformation was amazing. That clarinet now sings! I played a gig over the weekend and my stand mate (an R-13 player I had never met) commented on how nice the Monopole sounds, and looks. I’ve never had an instrument respond so dramatically to a mouthpiece change. Maybe those Rapsodies have the same problem.
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Author: pplateau
Date: 2007-10-29 22:40
Interesting! Especially as the bore is close in size to the R-13, but no doubt each has its own personality!!!
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Author: joeyscl
Date: 2007-10-31 09:10
"I found them to play very stuffy and resistant. They don't play anything like an R-13. Maybe the one you try will play differently."
tried some during clarinetfest 07, Very much agreed!
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Author: pplateau
Date: 2007-10-31 23:20
I know one on here who said his absolutely sings with a Bakun barrel.
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