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 Re: Clarinets getting " Blown-out "!...What's that about ?
Author: donald 
Date:   2023-03-18 13:24

I have written about "blown out" clarinets in other threads, no need to repeat here what I've already stated. However something occurred to me...
- My "last teacher" was Mr deKant at CCM, a true "old school" player, and he had lots of advice about picking out a clarinet (he considered it fairly essential to pick one from a large sample of at least 15-20 clarinets.
- his advice, which he presented to us as being "standard logic" among his peers, was to pick an instrument that was fairly resistant, as once it was BLOWN IN it would probably lose some of that resistance. If you picked an instrument that felt just right NEW, it would probably become too free blowing after it had broken in.
- I know of several symphony players from the post war era that used the same instruments for very long periods of time, decades even. Maybe instruments chosen using THIS LOGIC tend to last longer?
- Even in the last few years I've played a couple of instruments being sold by top players (including a well known US player/teacher) that were being sold after 3 or 4 years of playing... and lacked resistance and focus- what I describe to my students as a "concentrated sound".
While I didn't ask, I gather these instruments were originally selected for their suitability, not taking into account that they might lose some resistance after they had "broken in".
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