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Author: JamesOrlandoGarcia
Date: 2011-08-27 19:19
It says he plays on Selmer Signature clarinets. More proof that a Buffet isn't required for a successful American audition. I know, I've probably just stepped in it.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-08-27 21:36
I use the same Selmer on Bb, it's a great sounding clarinet. ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2011-08-27 21:53
Notwithstanding the legend of the Buffet mafia, don't forget that Gino Cioffi at Boston and Anthony Gigliotti at Philadelphia played Selmer clarinets.
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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2011-08-27 22:20
When I talked to Gigliotti. at TBA about 30 years ago, he played Buffet, and even mentioned going there to pick out a couple . Maybe he played both; I do not know. (For him anything would have sounded great. )
richard smith
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2011-08-28 01:49
rtmyth wrote:
> When I talked to Gigliotti. at TBA about 30 years ago, he
> played Buffet, and even mentioned going there to pick out a
> couple . Maybe he played both; I do not know. (For him
> anything would have sounded great. )
>
Gigliotti did play Buffet more most of his career. In fact there is a rather famous story about him going to the Buffet factory and auditioning a very large number of clarinets (over 50 IIRC). He then picked the best two and sent them to Hans Moennig for a complete rework. It was these Moennig-modified Buffet clarinets that became the basis for the Selmer series 10G that I believe Anthony Gigliotti only played at the very end of his career.
That being said, the notion that you need to play Buffet to win a major audition is probably nonsense. There have always been whispers of brand prejudice but I don't buy into them too much. The only documented case of clarinet prejudice I've heard of was when Gaston Hamelin was dismissed as the principal clarinet of the Boston Symphony because the music director didn't want him to play on his metal Selmer clarinet. In this case it wasn't brand snobbery so much as material snobbery since Boston Symphony clarinetists typically all played Selmer clarinets until Harold Wright came on the scene decades later.
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2011-08-28 03:49
Michael Jordan played on Nikes and Al Capone played on Smith & Wessons.
That's all that matters in Chicago.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2011-08-28 11:48
Not so,DiLeep, Capone played on Thompsons........they permitted very rapid staccatos and had long barrels.......
Bob Draznik
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2011-08-28 18:39
Gives a whole new meaning to chamber music. For solo work, though, the instrument of choice was the sawed-off (large bore) 12-Gauge. It came with two barrels.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2011-08-30 15:37
Ricardo Morales doesn't play Buffets and at least a few years ago neither did Anthony McGill. When Williamson was at the Met, at least the two principles and the second player did not play Buffets. Things are changing fast in todays clarinet world. When I was a student in NY in the 50s and early 60s, everyone played Buffets, I only heard of an occasional professional player anywhere using a Leblanc or Selmer. Now we have many different individual manufactures making their own brands, Rossi, Backun, Chadash and several others. Buffet still makes some fine clarinets but there are now many players using other brands all over the world. Of course in Germany and Austria they've always used the German manufactures. Some players in the USA are now using them as well but i believe only a few. ESP
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2011-08-30 16:16
I agree that the clarinet market is much more openminded than it once was in America.
In addition to those you mentioned, Michele Zukovsky of the LA Phil plays Wurlitzers.
I think the landscape a decade from now will be even more diverse.
Eric
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http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2011-08-30 17:02
Now that I think of it, communications have played a large role in our perception of clarinet brand dominance. When you really look at it, there were always players in the symphony orchestras playing different equipment.
Cioffi, Gigliotti (at times) and several others played Selmers, even during what most people consider the era where 'everyone' played Buffets.
Yamahas have been played by many top orchestral players for over a generation now, as have Leblancs.
Wurlitzers have been played by Zukovsky and Levee in the LA Phil, Joseph Rabbai at the Met, Stephen Bates at the Kennedy Center Opera! That's quite a list when you consider that they got their instruments back when it was very difficult.
Back before the internet, though, if your teacher told you "all the top players play my instrument", you pretty much believed it.
We've been a little bit more diverse all along, I think.
Eric
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