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Re: Alto clarinets

Author: Ebclarinet1
Date: 2017-12-02 18:45

I have a Buffet Prestige alto and use a Grabner mouthpiece and Silvestein alto sax ligature. With that set up the Rico Royal alto clarinet reeds (strength of 3) work very well. I also use Vandoren V21 and Gonzalez alto sax reeds with success.

This horn has a glorious sound! When people hear it they are surprised sounds like this can come from an alto! I prefer its sound to my basset horn even. One thing about alto (or at least this alto) is that all the ranges have a similar sort of timbre which I find especially pleasing.

Hope that you have fun playing the alto. Some of the old band transcriptions have rather nice parts for it.

Eefer guy

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