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Re: budget eefer choices

Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2017-04-15 16:38

If Tom Ridenour made an eefer, I would snap one up. His C clarinet is a bargain. But alas they have no plans.

Yeah - who was it that said playing Eb is "like wrestling with a snake"? Friends who only play eefer say it is an entirely different animal, and this seems to be to be an honest statement. A lot of playing angst just doesn't translate - your chops, ear, and breathing need to be different, and not everybody gets it. Compared to Bb or A clarinets, when I play the Eb, it is as if the sound is coming out of a different location.

I played duets a few years ago with someone with a Patricola C and it was good. So their eefer probably is of similar caliber.

Last year, the Noblet A I inherited from my father had to stand in on Debussy "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" when my R13 A broke a spring, and it was just fine. So I have no qualms.

A store in AZ had a Noblet Eb, and it should be here next week.

News at 11.

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