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Re: Higher resistance improves overtime?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-09-11 02:23

Sean.Perrin wrote:

> As someone who settled with an unusually resistant R13A I have
> to say I regret it and it did not "break in" to the extent I
> was hoping.
>
> Only you can decide but I would go for the feel and resonance
> you want over a hope for the resistant horn to improve.

The unhappy fact is that you can't ever be really sure what will happen as an instrument is used over time, especially over its initial life. String players deal with this all the time, and they spend a lot more money on new high quality instruments than we as clarinetists ever will. Buying one or the other of the two you (the OP) are testing is an equal risk. A great deal depends on how resistant the one really is and how out-of-tune those notes on the other really are.

Karl

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