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Eb clarinet

Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2019-02-02 05:22

I haven't posted here for years!
I bought a Normandy Eb on eBay a few years ago and only started playing it seriously a few weeks ago. It's fun. In our orchestra we're playing Hary Janos. The Eb part is not large; of course it is exposed, it is high, and it is doubled by two piccolos!
I bought a Backun barrel. Cocobolo. I think I like it. But there are a million variables, aren't there? At NAMM, I tooted on the Buffets, R13 and Devine, I think, and on the Selmer Recital, and on the Uebel. What I needed to do was bring all four home and spend hours on Altissimo and learn how to play the Eb clarinet.
Anyway, I'm having fun, intonation is difficult, but I'll keep at it.
I'm just chattering, I know, but I have learned one discouraging thing. The Backun barrel has a flat spot that allows use of clarinet reeds. I thought that had to be a great small feature, since I have lot's of clarinet reeds including Legere, and I don't want to have to saw them all up just to try them. But my mouthpiece is the Clark Fobes San Francisco and his table is a lower height than the Backun flat spot. Who would have thought?
Still just chattering, but maybe I'll buy a new mouthpiece........
Wayne Thompson

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