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Re: Doubts about new clarinet

Author: kdk
Date: 2019-06-28 03:12

You've gotten so much nonsense from your Internet sources that I won't even begin to go through them. So many of the things that you've read make a top line instrument harder to play are silly. The instrument has to be in good mechanical condition. Given that, an R13 or an RC shouldn't be harder to play than your E13.

But putting aside all the misinformation you've gotten, you have an easy way to see what the differences are between an RC and an E13. The other two clarinetists in your orchestra have RCs. Ask them each if they'll let you try their instruments - just the clarinets - with your mouthpiece and reeds. Then you'll have the benefit of a real world comparison, but even better, you'll be able to compare the two RCs to see if there's variation between them.

Maybe they'll refuse you, but there isn't really any reason to. You don't want to switch mouthpieces or reeds if you're comparing the clarinets, so there aren't any sanitary issues involved.

I would suggest that you re-think your feeling about new vs. used instruments. You can sometimes get a really good bargain on a used instrument that someone else has sold because he has found something that he likes better, or thinks he has. But that could mean that he has moved from a perfectly good RC to one of the new Uebels or some similar move. Used doesn't necessarily mean wrecked.

Karl

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