Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-07-27 09:08
Of course it isn't possible to make such an evaluation based on recordings. But on the Selmer video two very different clarinetists, Berrod and Rusinick, sound very much the way I'd like to sound. I hear a certain lightness and transparency of sound, evenness of emission and balance of tuning that makes me want to try the Presence. All any video or recording can do is to move you to try the instrument yourself and find out what it can do for you when you play it. This clarinet certainly sounds promising to me.
I cannot make a comparison of how it performs with respect to other clarinets until I've tried it myself, and I did not in fact attempt to compare it with Buffet, Yamaha, Shille, Rossi, Eaton, Josef Musik, Hammerschmidt, Wurlitzer, Ridenour, Hanson, Backun, or any other make or model of clarinet.
I do believe it permissible to feel some excitment for an instrument that sounds this good in recordings by different players. Of course I may be disappointed (or just as well, more enthusiastic) after I actually try the Presence. The only conclusion I have reached is that this clarinet CAN sound this good, however the result was obtained (magic, recording technology, voodoo).
Post Edited (2014-07-27 09:31)
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