Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2017-08-04 04:05
I have had all the new clarinets including the dead one, the all the high end Buffets, Toscas, Tradition and the Divine. I have no idea why people were dumping on the Divine, I have one and I think the Divine is a great instrument. I haven't had any of the new Selmers because when I've tried them none of the new models played as well as my 1959 Centered tone in my humble opinion.
After all the trying and I bought everything I've tried because I wanted to perform on all the instruments. I wanted to find the right mouthpiece and reed combination that made the instruments play their absolute best. When it's all said and done the Yamaha CSVR and the SEVR are the best clarinets out there. Intonation is great, the sound is "full spectrum" and they priced below the industry standard.
So you can spend more, a lot more, and be a member of the club, the family or the mafia . You can spend more and think you're buying game but you're not. You can have "consultants" hand pick horn whose sonic spectrum aligns with your "aura" but you're not going to find a better built, better sounding better priced clarinet than the new Yamahas.
It never ceases to amaze me how much time and energy is spent on this board talking about the parts of clarinet playing that "don't vibrate". If you really want to change how you sound, you need to make changes in the "matrix". The matrix I'm talking about is Air, Embouchure, reed and mouthpiece matrix. Working on that will yield some realistic results. Changing the plating on your ligature won't .
Tom Puwalski. I've seen enough to know I've seen too much.
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