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Re: C clarinet challenges

Author: donald
Date: 2022-01-06 13:17

I bought a Wooden Amati C clarinet after trying one owned by my colleague in Auckland Chamber Orchestra. The one I got was not quite as nice as I hoped, but with some fine tuning (filling in various holes etc) plays quite well in tune (compared to the Buffet RC Prestige C clarinets owned by APO).
Just before Covid my wife needed to borrow it for a gig with Ensemble Matheus in Paris (they needed to switch from period instruments to modern with short notice as the "historical Oboe" player became unavailable), and her Principal got me to pick out an Amati C from some available in here in NZ. As well as a wooden one, I picked out one from a sample of about 10 plastic student C clarinets (Amati) and he ended up using the Plastic one and returning the wooden one to NZ!
All of the plastic Amati C clarinets I tried were more free blowing than the wooden ones and seemed to have comparable intonation.
It seems unlikely that in the middle of Paris a top orchestra was using Amati student clarinets, but the Principal player had several solos (in "Italian in Algiers") that he played on a PLASTIC STUDENT AMATI C CLARINET.
Then again, I know of a former principal of a major orchestra who used a Yamaha student clarinet for a dress rehearsal once, as his clarinet was getting last minute repairs, and several colleagues complimented him on a big solo, not realising he wasn't on his pro horn!!!!!

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