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Re: German mpc/French Clarinet

Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2008-03-10 13:21

I wrote the article you refer to in The Clarinet. I was in the room at the Liszt Academy in Budapest with eight of the country's top players and everyone played Buffet or Selmer clarinets with French-style mouthpieces. No exceptions. True, Balogh Joszef was there and he plays both French and German system but he too considers himself a "French" player.

Kovacs Bela had a big retirement party for his 70th birthday a couple of years ago. There's a DVD of the event, at which a number of his current and former students played. Representatives from Vandoren and Buffet were in attendence. There was even a French clarinetist -- a very fine player -- who performed. I was told by people at Rose where I bought the DVD that Mr. Kovacs has indeed stopped playing and sold his instruments.

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