Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2013-02-08 13:06
ruben wrote:
> From what I've read, the Selmer 10 G clarinet was actually
> the product of Mr. Moennnig having fiddled (can one "fiddle"
> with a clarinet?) with Anthony Gigliotti's Buffet R13 for
> years. Once they got it to their liking, Selmer mass produced
> it.
Well, Gigliotti collaborated with Selmer, using his instruments as models. Moennig strongly disapproved. Further changes, meant to be improvements, were made to the basic Moennig R13 model.
> I tried about 3 or 4 and didn't find them all that good or
> very well in tune. Maybe the only thing this proves is that you
> can't mass produce something that is handcrafted. What did you
> think of this instrument, which has been discontinued?
>
I have played 10Gs since 1972, when they first came out (my Bb clarinet is an X-series). They still needed tweaking, but perhaps less than the R13s of the time did. But I never played on a completely virgin, off-the-shelf R13 of the time to compare. My Buffet clarinets had been modified by Moennig before I played them (one bought second-hand, the other from Moennig himself).
The main difference between R13 and 10G that I began to hear become more pronounced as the 10G evolved over the years was in the sound quality itself, which was meant to be very tightly focused with more blowing resistance than the contemporary R13s were. Not many players, I guess, found the feel to their liking. I don't think 10G was ever very popular, even in Gigliotti's home area of Philadelphia (at least 2 of the four Philadelphia Orchestra clarinetists stayed with their Buffets - I'm not sure about Raoul Querze).
Karl
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