Author: bmcgar ★2017
Date: 2010-10-02 19:42
A few notes:
- The price of a Bb Rossi is around $500 less than that of a Buffet Tosca or Leblanc Legacy, and nearly $700 less for the A models.
- Rossi clarinets are largely handmade instruments, and made to order, not mass produced. Consequently, it might take up to a year before Luis can fulfil an order, and most people aren't willing to wait that long.
- Because they're made to order, a buyer has to trust that he or she will get a fine clarinet, and can't pick and choose between several examples.
- WWBW no longer sells Rossi clarinets because, during their shake up a few years back, Luis was never paid for the instruments he sold through them.
- Luis has had offers to "expand," but has refused, even though he'd make a lot more money. He cares about making fine clarinets more than he does about money, so any comparison between how the Big Four do business and the way he does it is like comparing kiwi fruit to pomegranates.
- Like any other maker of any product, sometimes things go wrong. However, in my case, when the wrong solder was mistakenly used on a key my first Rossi clarinet, Luis sent me to a top-notch technician (Tim Clark), and paid for the repair, in addition to apologizing profusely for the inconvenience.
- A Rossi is not an R13, it's a Rossi. Everyone who I've talked to who "doesn't like Rossis" usually turns out not to like them because they've played one for five minutes and they're not what they're used to. And yes, as mentioned above, it takes some time to learn how to play a Rossi clarinet the way it wants to be played. The instrument is voiced differently, and the key feel is different.
- Rossi provides many more options than the Big Four, and at a REASONABLE price. What other maker offers two different configurations of throat Bb mechanisms, auxiliary LH Eb/G# key, raised L3 tone hole, and articulated G#, plus several different bore options in a clarinet so comparatively inexpensive?
B. (who has no business relationship with Luis, though I do sell his mouthpieces for him, taking no profit)
Post Edited (2010-10-03 05:39)
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