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Author: dim
Date: 2008-09-24 13:43
Which from Selmer Paris top line clarinet between RECITAL, SIGNATURE, and PRIVILEGE, that has dark sound, warm, rich, and like German sound?
Anyone know about the sound characteristics of RECITAL, SIGNATURE and PRIVILEGE??
thank you
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-09-24 14:55
All of the above if you make them sound German.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2008-09-24 15:17
I had a nice set of Recitals. I sounded just like my ancestry--Part French and part German.
Guess what....that is same way I sound on my Buffets.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2008-09-24 22:53
Well I don't know if the Signature or the Recital have darker sound but my teacher said that the Signature has more focused sound and the Recital has for him too much of an open sound. Well he said since he mainly plays new music and has to do lot of bendings and wired sounding stuff that he likes to have more center in the sound so he can do all these things more easily without the sound becoming unfocused.
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Author: hans
Date: 2008-09-24 23:18
dim,
This is what it says on Selmer's web site:
"Clarinetists preferring a darker, warmer sound would prefer the Recital. A highly tapered .563" bore combines with a thicker grenadilla wood body to deliver a lush clarinet tone."
I hope that's helpful.
Hans
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Author: S. Friedland
Date: 2008-09-25 00:49
It is very helpful. I think I was the first player in Montreal who tried the Recital and frankly, I couldn't beieve how unusual it seemed to me. I got it from the Selmer disributor who dropped it off at Twigg Music. I then ordered an A to go with it. I found it to be completely even throughout the horn and a bit heavy. It was called at that time either the FAT clarinet and/ the Log. It had tuning problems which I investigated and was told by Selmer that the horn was made to be played with the C85 mouthpiece, which was then a new item. After I got a few, the tuning problems cleared up, however the low F was always flat, really flat until they added an optional key which helped it to resonate, something I never experienced. Adjectives are used indiscriminitely as selling tools. Leister was hot then, the Berlin Philharmonic and all the rest of it, so why not German? It was however a great instrument to play. I donated my set to Concordia University when I retired.
Sherman Friedland
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