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Re: Best professional clarinet

Author: RLarm
Date: 2017-07-06 23:05

You can also improve an already good clarinet to the excellent level. Find an expert repair person and go over your entire horn with them. Have them adjust the spring tension to exactly what YOU like for the ENTIRE clarinet. Change all pads that need to be replaced and have them adjusted to the optimum height. Now we get to the complicated section. Go over the entire horn and make the sound production as even as possible and intonation quirks are mostly eliminated. Now that is something your average repair person can't do because it will partially involve working on each individual tone hole. Hans Moennig, a saint of a man, would do that for people like Robert Marcellus. So you might end up with an exceptional instrument, far different from what it is was before you started this entire process. Why doesn't a company like Buffet do this? Well, they certainly would be putting out less instruments and their prices would go way up. And it still wouldn't be nearer to perfect because you wouldn't be there to supervise them as they work on your horn. I don't know if they would even do that for the "average" player even if that player could afford the procedure. (I doubt if a player like Olivier Patey, principal with the Royal Concertgebouw is playing on an off the self Buffet, but is probably playing a horn that Buffet worked many hours with him on. And he has both a low F and low E resonance keys!) Or you can be like some players who constantly tinker around with their horn. Sometimes they improve them, other times they totally ruin them. I have a friend who was putting nail polish in several tone holes right up to the moment when he had to go on to the stage and perform at the Munich competition. All of this is a reason why many players have decided to play the Yamaha CSVR. You can take it right out of the box and pretty much be guaranteed that you will have a clarinet that can play exceptionally well immediately.

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