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Author: JezW
Date: 2008-07-16 03:43
I am currently looking to buy a new clarinet and would really like to test out a Rossi. However they are proving quite elusive to get hold of in the UK. The only UK stockist, Wood Wind and Reed, don't have any at the moment. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to where i could go or who i could contact to try a Rossi out in this country?
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-07-16 09:22
Howarth in London? I seem to remember they had a pair in stock.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-07-16 09:25
Howarth in London? I seem to remember they had a pair in stock.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: JezW
Date: 2008-07-18 16:17
Ive looked at the used lists of every major woodwind supplier i can think of and seen nothing. As for finding someone who plays a rossi, im at music college and have never even seen a rossi. i keep looking out for one though
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-07-18 20:48
The only Rossi player I know of lives in the Southampton area.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: JezW
Date: 2008-07-19 16:59
Im studying at RNCM, have just been contacting the clarinet tutors here to see if they know of any rossis
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-07-19 19:57
Well I knew a guy with Rossis that did a postgrad there at the RNCM. His name is Tim Baker but i'm not sure if he stayed in Manchester. The only other person who played Rossi clarinets was my old teacher Colin Parr. He used them in the final years in the CBSO before he retired. I used his rossi clarinets for a time when I was looking to upgrade and found his instruments really nice but other people have not been so lucky with them in terms of intonation. You could also try Lindsay Marsh, principle of the Halle, I seem to remember she played on Rossi instruments.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2008-07-20 07:52
This may be against all the advice and recommendations (and opinions) that you hear, but I don't think test playing a Rossi "on the fly" is going to help much.
I switched from Buffets to Rossis about three years ago (I have a Bb, A, and C), and it took me about three months to learn how the instruments wanted to be played.
Some Buffet players who I respect very much have rejected Rossi instruments out of hand as being inferior to Buffets because they expected, consciously or unconsciously, that the Rossis should have the same playing characteristics--resistance, voicing in various registers, etc....and even key feel--as what they're used to.
For example, the voicing--and therefore the tuning--in the throat register is much different than on the high-end Buffets and VERY much different than the Leblanc Opus-style bore and the Ridenour instruments.
As I said, you have to learn to play the Rossi the way it wants you to play it to get the most out of it, but if you have a closed mind about finding something different than what you're used to, don't bother.
Of course, not knowing any other Rossi players nearby, all I can say is that that's only my personal take on them, but I seriously doubt that you're going to be able to pick up a Rossi for a few minutes and be able to evaluate it accurately in that short a time, before you really get to know it.
This is liable to generate lots of "discussion," so I won't go any further than to say that, now that I've played them for over three years, the only way anyone will get them away from me is by prying them from my cold, dead fingers.
Cheers.
B.
Post Edited (2008-07-20 07:54)
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