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Re: A-key clarinet list?

Author: johnnydodds
Date: 2020-01-28 09:44

Mike Sz - This is very helpful. I will add that brand to my list! And you're absolutely right. The more I play my Cavalier the more I prefer it. The fat A and Ab keys feel so much nicer under my fingers, and my tech is going to weld a stopper post under the A for me, since there really should be one there since the key pushes down too far and that note plays slightly sharp anyway. Compared to my plastic and wood clarinets it speaks very easily and has that fat low end resonance only a metal Conn instrument can make. This site actually trash talks them a bit as a student horn, and the action is a little clunky in places but it has solid intonation and it's the only metal clarinet so far I can actually push far enough in to play sharp, giving me enough play to tune it properly in all wealher conditions. I had my own predjudice against metal clarinets because long ago my first sax instructor said they were horrible and sounded like a dying goose. And I heard a few people play them so badly I assumed he was right. Now owning one of my own for only a month I realize how wrong he was and that in the hands of a player with good embouchure control metal clarinets sound fantastic.

Post Edited (2020-01-28 09:57)

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2020-01-22 07:53