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After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2025-01-24 16:09
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Here's my post about how I loved Rossi clarinets and wanted to own a set.

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=166788&t=166770

Well, a used (and I mean HEAVILY used, as you can see in the pictures!) set arrived at my doorstep yesterday and it was WORTH IT! What a sound. And light and fluid keywork.

I never thought I'd say it, but my wonderful Evette and Schaeffer K-series clarinet is gonna have to sit on the sidelines. Wow!

Just wanted to share my joy. But now, back to sax practice! Still playing, still loving music, just broadening my horizon to sax and jazz/pop! It's a hard hill to climb, and now-me wishes that PAST-me had just started decades ago. But I'm not gonna let FUTURE-me be as mad.

-Lex

Retired, playing more sax than clarinet, but still playing clarinet and still loving it!

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: Ed
Date: 2025-01-24 20:31

Many years back I tried a Rossi at a clarinet fest. I thought it was a beautifully made instrument that sounded and played great. Congrats!

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: kilo
Date: 2025-01-24 22:24

I'm very happy for you! I've never played one but a few years ago I had the chance to heft one and run my fingers through some scales and it really felt solid and smooth. I love the single-jointed body and, while I understand the issues with the supply and expense of blackwood, I wish the higher quality composite clarinets being made today would copy that feature.

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2025-01-24 22:53

I tried a Rossi Bb at a Clarinetfest, and it sounded and played beautifully. Except, one of the low register notes, which unreliable memory tells me was D4, buzzed. It felt like it buzzed, and I could hear it. It seemed to obviously stick out from adjacent notes like a sore thumb. The Rossi person there didn't perceive anything wrong with the note; they probably thought I was buzzed. I'm willing to assume it was me, but the experience was an oddity.

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2025-01-25 09:51

Congrats! That has got to feel good - to realize the dream and have it turn out as good as you had hoped!

Congrats on retirement too!

Fuzzy
;^)>>>

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2025-01-25 18:49

Yes, congratulations! I believe there is no lovelier sounding low E and low F in all clarinetdom.

………….Paul Aviles

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Re: After posting this over 20 years ago, I made my dream come true

Author: Bill
Date: 2025-01-28 01:36

Beautiful! Congratulations!

Bill Fogle
Ellsworth, Maine
(formerly Washington, DC)

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