Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2021-11-23 22:01
I was wondering a thing about very old clarinets which ties into what Donald says, above.
I kind of wonder if there can be good individual examples of clarinets of any age, and also bad examples, even with very old, very well regarded makers.
One reasion I wondered this is that my 100 year old clarinet sounds wonderful in its tone, but has been so well used that it is practically falling apart.
I have seem another copy of the same clarinet for sale online as part of a pair. Both clarinets of the pair are in more or less mint condition and have clearly been hardly used in a whole century.
I wondered - do you think there is something wrong with the mint conditions ones that caused them to keep being put back in the cupboard for all these years? They look lovely, but it seems to me that if they played well then maybe someone would have played them?
I could be wrong though. Maybe it was just a rich person who had the money to have something like that sitting around unused forever?
This is the pair:
http://www.clarinetsdirect.biz/EJAlberts-Fletcher.html
Mine doesn't look anything like that. Even the metal ligature has been so well used that it has literally split in half.
Photographs of my own copy are shown here for comparison:
https://lovelyoldclarinet.blogspot.com/2021/05/and-now-i-am-going-to-play-it.html
Adult learner, Grade 3
Equipment: Yamaha Custom CX Bb, Fobes 10K CF mp,
Legere Soprano Sax American Cut #2, Vandoren Optimum German Lig.
Post Edited (2021-11-23 22:11)
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