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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2014-03-01 19:20
I'm playing West Side Story, and the part has an Eb Clarinet part - that goes up to Altissimo G.
So I ordered first from Ebay a Vito Eb that was pretty old, and after the first rehearsal I thought, hmm, maybe something better would be more appropriate.
I had the Vito serviced, and it worked just fine - until during the first rehearsal, it suddenly stopped working. Turned out the Eb/Ab spring popped out, which when I put it back in, the Spring would just turn and pop back out again. I grab a rubberband that I had in my case, and of course right away, it breaks while starting to apply it (was old).
I ask, and get a rubberband from another cast member, and am good to go.
So I buy a new Yamaha Eb, and am using it in the 2nd rehearsal.
SAME 'NON WORKING' feel happens again.
Turns out that the Eb/Ab screw backed itself out, and the key started to come out of it's place......... Oboist next to me saw the key 'shift'c
Something about that freaking key is hexed!!!
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Post Edited (2014-03-01 19:21)
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2014-03-01 20:08
Eefers are from the dark side, so you should have had it exorcised before playing it.
Tony F.
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-03-01 22:37
The Eb is an ornery creature to deal with, to both play and maintain. Some players who are handy with personal clarinet repair still come to grief when they have to confront mechanical problems on the Eb.
Lohf and Pfeiffer seem to know some tricks to keep the Eb from crashing. If you plan to keep playing the thing for a long time, it might pay to let their repair and maintenance people have a look. If you can figure out exactly what they did, you might be able to do it yourself the next time around.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-03-01 18:12
You just don't get the hint do you Dave? Someone is trying to tell you something. I'd send you my Eb but I gave it to a student of mine who's playing in the New World Symphony. Too bad. It's a great Buffet that David Weber helped me pick out when Buffet was the distributer by Carl Fisher in NY. A long time ago. Transpose it on the Bb. :-)
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Author: donald
Date: 2014-03-02 14:59
I love the E flat clarinet, I have an old R 13 that was handed around various Aussie pro players before being sold to me. It's got the most beautiful tone of any clarinet I've ever owned. I use a mouthpiece Brad Behn refaced for me in 1996, the stock barrel and cut off V12s.
Sorry you have encountered these problems, but it's more to do with chance/luck than the dark side. (ok, i get that you were joking)
I'd LOVE to be playing Westside btw, the great gig drought we have in summer is just over, I have my first concert of the year next weekend...
dn
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-03-02 18:52
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Whenever I do the pit band version of WSS (usually on Reed 3 as that part has oboe/cor) I put several numbers on Eb rather than the published Bb as they're in unison with the Reed 2 player who is on Eb there anyway.
Now I've got the Eb clarinet I've always wanted (Series 9 full Boehm) it does mean my Buffet Eb is feeling a bit left out.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: CocoboloKid
Date: 2014-03-03 10:27
That's the book I'm playing on the current national tour, David! (With a bunch of added flute and some tenor sax because of the reduced size of our pit) I live for "America" and "Cool" every night...maybe not so much the unison high E (concert G) with the piccolo in the beginning of The Rumble, though. :P
(Oddly, that exact key is also wobbly and strange on the Normandy 10 eefer I'm playing on the tour...I wonder if there is some kind of Eb/Ab key curse placed on all e-flat clarinets by a disgruntled Eb player who also happened to be a part time voodoo priestess from the last century?)
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