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Re: Clarinet Knowledge

Author: bradfordlloyd
Date: 2023-02-06 20:12
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I purchased a Rampone & Cazzani Ab piccolo clarinet several years ago when I saw someone list it on eBay for a very low price (picture attached). After refurbishing it, buying mouthpiece and reeds, and working with it for a while, I found it unmanageable for me -- just too small to play with any skill or dexterity with my large fingers, and a tiny embouchure that was hard to accommodate.

After discovering that there was almost no literature written for it (most that I could find was part of Austrian schrammel music or clarinet choirs), and the challenges with playing it, I sold it. For a nice profit, actually.

The woman who bought it told me that she had been on a waiting list from the manufacturer for 2-3 years for a new one, and they couldn't promise when she would get the horn.

It was fun to have and play -- everything about it is impossibly small! But I haven't missed it at all.

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