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Author: oca
Date: 2011-12-07 09:12
I recently found out that my friends father sold 5 professional clarinets for $200 each, in which one was a Buffet R13, knowing that I would have liked to buy it.
What are your biggest clarinet/musical dissapointments?
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-12-07 12:08
Not purchasing a Walter Grabner Chedeville mouthpiece I had on trial from woodwind and brasswind 9 years ago.
I ordered it with no money because I wanted to try it and it was amazing. Played everything I wanted, how I wanted, effortlessly. I asked him if he'd start making them again, but he wasn't happy with the blanks he was getting and his demand for kaspar styles skyrocketed so he went where it was better for business. Still miss it. Although I've FINALLY stopped bugging him about it...more or less...
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
Post Edited (2011-12-07 12:08)
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2011-12-07 12:45
A few years back I bought a Selmer Signet on EBay. It was in reasonable order and played well. Nothing special, but with it came a glass mouthpiece from Leblanc, Paris. I dropped it untested into my junk box and thought little more of it.
Several years later I was checking through the mouthpieces in my junk box and came across the Leblanc piece. I cleaned it up and it scrubbed up well. I strapped a Vandoren 3 on, fitted it to my Emperor and was amazed at how good it was. I was able to get right into the altissimo register effortlessly and I found it to be almost entirely without vices, with a great tone.
It was pretty well everything I'd been looking for and I felt like a puppy with 2 tails. With a great feeling of satisfaction I removed it, dropped it onto a tile floor and looked sadly at the collection of glass fragments around my feet. I've never found a mouthpiece as good, although I've looked hard.
I have other mouthpieces which work OK now, and I also have a serious collection of glass mouthpieces, none of which work worth a damn.
Tony F.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2011-12-07 12:49
Getting attached to too many of them........
Bob Draznik
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Author: C.Elizabeth07
Date: 2011-12-07 18:36
Having my horns stolen after a gig. 2 clarinets (buffets) custom mouthpiece, two orsi-weir barrels. Police couldn't understand why I was so upset, until I explained how much everything was worth....
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2011-12-07 19:48
My biggest disappointment was probably the time I drove 50 miles to look at a "Selmer Paris Bass Clarinet" that was listed on craigslist only to find out after arriving that it was actually a Malerne stencil alto clarinet with a Selmer Paris mouthpiece. The seller hadn't been entirely honest with me over the phone when describing the instrument and didn't really know what it was. I had thought I was going to be getting a great deal on a professional bass clarinet but it turns out that I just ended up wasting a couple of hours and $20 in gas.
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Author: William
Date: 2011-12-07 20:16
As a college student, I passed up buying an used Buffet Bb (#21,xxx) because my college clarinet professor pointed out a small crack starting in the upper joint saying, "you never know what will happen even if it is pinned". I remember it as being the best playing clarinet I've ever tried--it simply sang, in tune, with a 'ring' in every note. But I listened to my teacher and passed it up. However, he didn't......he bought the clarinet, had the crack repaired and played it as his main instrument for most of his career.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-12-08 20:42
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But I listened to my teacher and passed it up. However, he didn't......he bought the clarinet, had the crack repaired and played it as his main instrument for most of his career. Hope you got a new teacher. What horrible morals.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2011-12-08 21:37
I was offered the chance to buy a Fritz Wurlitzer bass clarinet a couple of years back, but lacked the funds to pull the deal off.
Clarinets Direct had a set of Fritz Wurlitzer clarinets on sale earlier this year--I mentioned it on the Board and they immediately sold...alas, not to me.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: oca
Date: 2011-12-09 00:09
Ridenour himself is on youtube! Maybe that will cheer you up.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-12-13 12:53
My biggest disappointment happened at a flea market, where I had a pleasant conversation with a fellow cockroach near the entrance, and then we agreed to take opposite routes through the market. We met up again near the middle -- where he was handing over the money for a late 19th century Buffet (Albert system) in E-flat. Nuts! Beat me to it! I noticed the case was in bad shape and offered him a bag to carry it in, but he said he thought the latches would hold.
My husband told me later that he saw that same cockroach crawling around on the asphalt, picking up itty-bitty things and putting them into the open clarinet case lying on the ground next to him. Uh-oh.
Well, a few weeks later, my friendly rival showed up at a different flea market with that same instrument for sale. I wasn't surprised he was selling, because he's not a musician. (I'd hoped he'd do that -- he'd paid so little that I figured his profit would still leave me a good deal; and in fact I suspected he'd bought the clarinet with the gleeful expectation that he could peddle it to me.) But, to my surprise, he was selling for the same price he'd paid. Then I saw why. The beautiful antique mouthpiece, formerly intact, was now glued together most clumsily, with gaps. The mouthpiece wasn't the original, which would've been wooden (this one was hard rubber, which was why it had shattered), but still.... Well, that answered the question of why he'd been crawling around on the asphalt. I bought the clarinet from him anyway (and took it home with a web strap around that unreliable case), but never have found a mouthpiece that's just right for it.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2011-12-15 04:31
In the late 1970's, a local music store had a sale on. They had a bunch of sheet music on some tables outside their entrance. It was stuff they'were trying to unload for a variety of reasons. Among that music was a score and full set of parts for the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto. The only thing missing was the solo part, itself. Because of the missing part, they were only asking $10 for the whole thing. At the time, I had never heard of the concerto so I passed it up. I kick myself every time I remember it. (Excuse me. Ouch!)
Best regards,
jnk
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