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Re: Leblanc Concerto and Opus

Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2010-03-12 23:02

Well let me add my stone (rather boulder).

I may have been one of the first to play an Opus in 1991 soon after they came off the assembly line. When I bought my Bb they still did not make As.

They were even, but had a very hard time getting up to pitch (A-442 is the norm here in Chicago). And they were inflexible.

I will never forget playing them for Mr. Marcellus. He asked to try them. He played a few notes and handed them back to me. He gave me his opinion in one word......"Dead".

Reminds me of the Stokowski story when he conducted the NYPO as a guest when Avery Fisher Hall first opened. After the first two chords of the opening of the Eroica and he stops and tells someone....."tear it down and start over."

And they basically did about 40 years later.

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