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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-11-03 19:29
For L&K clarinets you might consider trying the mouthpieces made by Hans Colbers in the Netherlands. He's been using a special wooden blank from L&K that they developed after their experiment with "Zelltec" wood composite was a bit too hard on the facing tools used by most mouthpiece techs (including Colbers). The new wood blank is reputed to have a very smooth, mellow and still colorful sound, is nearly impervious to warping, and can easily be refaced.
https://www.hanscolbers.com/material.php?LN=0.
Your reviews of the three clarinets are helpful, but many orchestral players are most interested in how the clarinets work in the acoustic environment of a large concert hall. Testing these three in a orchestra, with a good listener sitting near the back wall in a full auditorium is most important. (The more densely packed the hall with people, the deader the sound). They would have to be tested against American orchestral players' favorites, the Buffet R13, the Buffet Prestige R13, the Buffet Festival, and the Buffet Tosca, along with that newcomer, the Yamaha CSVR, as well as the Backun MoBa, and the Selmer Signature and Selmer Privilege clarinets under these conditions. How do they blend? Do they rise above the orchestra in solo passages? Also in the same full concert hall, with the clarinet soloist standing, unamplified, in front of the orchestra.
(Statistically, I think I have covered the field. In American pro orchestras probably most play Buffet and a few play Backun, Selmer, Yamaha, and Guy Chadash. It is very rare to see anything else).
Post Edited (2017-11-03 22:20)
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Re: Play-tested: YCL-CSG III, Uebel Superior, Buffet Tradition new |
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