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Re: Bill McColl's Boxwood Buffet!

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2015-02-05 05:40

Bill McColl was very much his own man--an independent thinker. He may have been the first American clarinetist to use a Zinner mouthpiece on his Boehm clarinet. I remember him sending me one to try long before I or anyone I knew had even heard of them.

I seem to recall that McColl studied in Vienna with Leopold Wlach. He mentioned that Wlach had used a Koktan mouthpiece on his Koktan German system clarinet. He was as curious to transfer some of the qualities of the Viennese Koktan to the Boehm instrument as Francois Benda is today.

That sweet boxwood clarinet tone matches the tone of the wooden flute very well. I wonder if the flute is also boxwood? The sound of the boxwood Buffet is expecially mellow in the altissimo--substantially different from its grenadilla counterpart, and the tuning seems exceptionally good.

Post Edited (2015-02-05 05:52)

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