Author: Sum Randumb D00d
Date: 2017-04-04 19:04
Well I did a lot more scrolling through the archives last night.
The consensus seems to be that the horns from the 1950s & 1960s had the most beautiful tone colors, but that the modern horns play much better in tune [and tend to have much better keywork - or at least much less finicky keywork].
That seems to be the case everywhere in the industry today - from French Horns to Oboes and beyond - the tonal colors peaked circa the 1950s & 1960s, but nowadays everyone plays impeccably perfect intonation on drab uninspiring horns which are sonorously dead.
I also couldn't find anything like a "1955 Robert Carree" moment for the Bass Clarinets - i.e. an epiphanous point in time when everything changed.
Although Clark Fobes was very critical of the changes which Selmer made to the 33 Bass, circa 1983, so if you have $5000 [or $7500] to spend on the project, then you want a pre-1983 33.
And the modern horns, with the Low C and the impeccably perfect intonation, are gonna run ya $10,000 to $15,000.
jus sayin
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