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Re: Yamaha CSVR review.

Author: jack
Date: 2018-05-26 08:04

Just read through this thread and so chime in fwiw.

At the Orlando Fest last summer I heard a clarinet and thought to myself, that's a clarinet I could do something with. Turns out it was a Yamaha YCL-SEV Master. A relatively big bore clarinet only sold new in Japan. Turns out Yamaha had one in their Buena Park, CA facility because it was used as a prototype for a new horn now in production and being sold in the States. (Sorry can't recall the model name).

Tried it, loved it, bought it. Now have two Bb plus an A. Lucked into the 2nd Bb and the A on Ebay. They run around $4500.00 if ordered from Japan.

Tuning was almost unbelievable, not just close to center but dead on center on virtually every note in all octives. My teach said that was one of the reasons it sounds so great - it's so perfectly in tune. (And I've always labored to play the R-13 in tune).

So anyway after getting home with it and giving it a go, I later picked up the very nice R-13 which I have enjoyed for many years (and which is in very good condition) and my first reaction was What is wrong with my R-13? It didn't match the YCL-SEV Master in any category you can think of: particularly beauty of tone from soft to loud, perfect resistance, the way it reacts to different mouthpieces in extracting what is good about the different mouthpieces, to me it is just an exciting clarinet to play whether it's Baermann Complete Method or a rhythmic Choro piece.

Obviously all just my opinion.

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