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Re: Alto Clarinet...

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-06-24 14:25

I like my 1979 Paris Selmer alto a lot. I bought it used, in good condition. It looked to me as if the previous owner had hardly played it.

The first alto I ever played (1960) was an ancient school instrument in horrible condition that my school had acquired from another school whose conductor was probably delighted to foist off this useless piece of plumbing on a Battle-of-the-Bands rival. That clarinet was all but unplayable. It needed either basic maintenance that would have cost more than the sorry old honker was worth -- or about a quarter of a stick of dynamite up the bore.

I think if I'd had to play that wreck much longer, I'd hate the alto clarinet, too! The second alto I played was the same school's brand-new Bundy, replacing the wreck. Bundies went through a bad period in the 1950s and 1960s. This alto was not nearly as good clarinet as my current Selmer, but it was orders of magnitude better than what it replaced and it made me a fan of the instrument. Too bad it's the Rodney Dangerfield of clarinets -- it don't get no respect.

Lelia
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