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Re: Another try

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2023-06-18 19:01

Hi SecondTry,

In the Battipaglia thesis (p13), the interview with Gino Cioffi states that following his move from Italy to the USA, he switched from reed uppermost to reed below. He says he did this just because it was hard to get paying jobs if he was playing in an unorthodox way, and not because he believed it confered any performance advantage.

I've heard people say so many times here that people buy Buffet clarinets because they are under pressure to do so in order to look like a serious contender for a professional job.

Is it possible that something happened at some point to make it become "the professional standard" to play single lip, without it being technically essential or superior?

Again, this is the same kind of thing that I've seen in photography. There are so many great small cameras these days. But I've seen people on professional photography forums saying that they have to buy the big DSLR, or else they wouldn't get hired for weddings.

Jen

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