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Re: Gino Cioffi Recordings/Videos

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-06-13 20:21

At a master class MANY years ago, Cioffi read a letter from Selmer to him saying, among other things, that a new pair of clarinets had been delivered to him on which "the right hand has been tempered to your specifications." To me, that means that his instruments were customized.

At the time, I'm pretty sure that he was the only major player in the US using Selmers, so I'm sure the company would go out of the way to keep him happy and recommending Selmers to his pupils.

I know of no videos of Cioffi playing solo, but there are some of him playing in the Boston Symphony. About six months ago we had a discussion of a Munch Symphonie Fantastique on YouTube, which had excellent close-ups of the woodwind section. http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=314177&t=314177

Ken Shaw

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