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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-05 22:52
I'm curious - it seems as though many of the sneezy regulars (whatever) own more than one clarinet - I own a just one.
I'd be interested in getting a listing of what people own (not by brand, just quantity)
E flat - 1
B flat - 3
A - 1
Bass - 1
Contrabass - own a house instead
I'm curious - as always.
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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-03-05 23:21
I own a just 5 now. [My you Aussies have a strange way of speaking. Did you go by way of Italy?] It used to be a just 6. Same breakdown as you, except I haven't been bitten by the bass bug ...yet.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-05 23:26
Oh - misleading - I own just one - I was rather trying to give an easy way to typing out this info!
As to aussies having a strange way of speaking!?! Jim, you can talk!!! :-)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-03-05 23:31
diz...You already know, but I'll post anyway.
I have 11.
Eb - 1
C - 1
Bb - 6
A - 3 ...GBK (always on the look out for a "vintage" #12)
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2002-03-05 23:35
1 Eb sopranino, 1 C soprano, 4 Bb sopranos, 1 low Eb bass, 1 low C bass.
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-03-05 23:36
three
2-Bb and one Bass.
clarinet are like horses. One is not enough and two is too many.
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Author: Mindy
Date: 2002-03-05 23:53
1 Eb
5 Bb
I am hoping to get ALL of the clarinets around....but that won't happen for another decade or so.
Mindy
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Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2002-03-06 00:09
What's the point in having so many Bb's etc? I have 1 Bb, 1 A, and 1 Eb....I did have an R13 bb before I got my Festival, but I sold it.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-03-06 00:19
I think that for those of us that perform regularly, having a back-up set (Bb and A) of clarinets is a prudent idea for those "morning of the concert" catastrophies (which always seem to happen on a Sunday).
My particular addiction (to one specific vintage of one specific brand) is truly a personal choice, and thankfully one that I am financially able to subsidize.
All of my instruments, play, respond, feel, and sound slightly different. They have all become like trusted old friends - and I get to choose who I spend my time with. Some I enjoy more than others, but all are satisfying in their own particular way...GBK
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Author: Larry Liberson
Date: 2002-03-06 00:27
Nine (assuming my abacus is functioning correctly...) :
2 A's
3 Bb's
1 C
1 D
2 Eb's
...and a partridge in a pear tree...
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-03-06 00:40
diz, I really had to think about this. Let's see...
Eb = 1
A = 1
Bb = 9 (I think)
also:
Four wood recorders,
Three ocarinas,
Two tonettes,
One flute, one fife,
And a partridge in a pear tree.
And bob gardner says "clarinet are like horses. One is not enough and two is too many."
To which I disagree. With Clarinets, I think it's the other way around. Two are not enough, and one is too many.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-06 00:40
cute larry, very cute
do you get much use out of your C and D clarinet? I know a lot of "romantic" opera composers used them (the C especially), also Schubert, Dvorak, etc, I'm glad they're having a resurgence
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Author: Cindy
Date: 2002-03-06 00:58
1 Bb, only 1 Bb, and proud of my wonderful clarinet.
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Author: Cory
Date: 2002-03-06 01:15
1 Eb
2 Bb (one is my still functioning but rarely used student horn)
I'm a band director so I own a myrid of other instruments as well.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-03-06 01:38
My pitiful list...
1 Bb
1 Unplayable Bb
1 Contralto that the school owns but I might as well keep it.
Since my other clarinet is not restorable at all (Some generic brand with missing keys I got off Ebay a year ago for 10 bucks), Expect this list to include a lamp.
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Author: Arthur
Date: 2002-03-06 01:49
Two Eb, two ..C, Thirteen Bb, three A, one Basset horn, three Eb alto, three Bass, one contraalto ....I loan out a lot of horns to my friends...no Ab, D, G or Basset A yet, or contrabass yet
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-06 01:57
Arthur wow - I'm speechless (and ever so slightly envious) :-)
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Author: John Noecker
Date: 2002-03-06 02:03
Hehe. How about 1 Bb that's broken? *grin* I shall remedy that soon, but right now, I suppose I have **0**!!
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Author: Martin
Date: 2002-03-06 02:08
2 B-flats- I leave a plastic one at work so I can practice during my lunch period. I am a teacher and it helps relieve stress.
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Author: Jim S.
Date: 2002-03-06 02:24
GBK: You say you would like a vintage #12. Do you have a hankering for a 1951 R-13 (with a lousy scale)? Beautiful German silver keywork, loaded with nostalgia, never been thrown down in anger.
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Author: sylvain
Date: 2002-03-06 02:33
1 A
1 Bb
2 extra barrels
and only 2 mouthpieces (I am very proud of this ;->)
But hope to extend this collection extensively as soon as I finally leave school and make money (not playing music ;->)...
-S
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-03-06 02:34
For personal use:
5 wood
3 metal
1 plastic alto
Woods and metals are Alberts, the alto is a Vito.
A closetful of recycleables (16, last time I counted
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Author: jenna
Date: 2002-03-06 02:59
Bb - (3 2 and 1 metal.)
Eb alto - 2 (one through school)
Bass (through school) - 1
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-03-06 03:04
Jim S...If that 1951 Buffet was about 26 years newer, the check would already be in the mail.
Thanks for thinking of me though...GBK
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-03-06 03:06
Jim S...oops, I meant 16 years newer....GBK
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Author: David Kinder
Date: 2002-03-06 03:08
2 metal Bb's (non-functioning)
1 A - Leblanc LL
3 Bb - Buffet Festival, R-13 and a Yamaha plastic
1 C - Albert system
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Author: KevinS
Date: 2002-03-06 03:38
4 Bb's : Yamaha SEV, 2 Buffet R-13's, (one full boehm) 1 Leblanc Dynamique
1 A : Leblanc Dynamique
Interestingly, the Dynamique pair has matching serial numbers. 4032 for the Bb, A4032 for the A. They were evidently a special order direct from Leblanc in the late 1950's
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Author: MsRoboto
Date: 2002-03-06 04:25
3 Bb's - my original wooden Getzen - marched with etc very
bad shape - could be lamp material
1 Bundy for bad weather (got smarter in my old age)
1 Buffet R-13
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Author: John Kelly
Date: 2002-03-06 05:14
Hello Jim S,
Speaking on behalf of Diz [if I may] we speak, more or less, what is known as the Queen's English in Australia....it's our British background you see.........so hmmmm!
Cheers,
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Author: Brian B
Date: 2002-03-06 05:28
This is my first post to the BB....thought i'd join in.
1 Eb
3 C (2 albert, 1 boehm)
7 Bb (1 metal, 3 boehm, 3 albert)
3 A (2 boehm, 1 albert)
1 Alto
1 Bass
1 Contrabass
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-06 05:58
I own a two (or three depending on your way of thinking): one yamaha student clarinet, plus a souvenir from Morocco -- an ethnic double-bored clarinet. I dont know what the name of the latter is though, can anyone tell me?
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Author: Wayne Thompson
Date: 2002-03-06 05:58
How about fantasy clarinets? I look in antique stores for one of the hypothetical octo-contrabass clarinets. And this is the first time I've said this outloud: a more realistic fantasy is that I will buy a Patricola rosewood B flat in the next few months. I actually own only a pair, B flat and A. A few months ago I sent the Artley plastic one off to a flautist niece to goof around with.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-03-06 05:58
They seem to have accumulated but some will be sold in a year.
3 Eb(2 regular, 1 full Boehm)
1 C
9 Bb(1 R13, 1 Tribert, 1 full Boehm, 1 metal, 1 metal full Boehm, 4 simple system)
3 A(1 R13, 1 full Boehm, 1 simple system)
1 F Basset
1 Eb Alto
1 Bass
1 EEb Contra-alto
1 Slide Bass
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Author: graham
Date: 2002-03-06 07:52
3 b flats
1 A
1 Bassett Horn
1 Bass
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Author: kenabbott
Date: 2002-03-06 10:31
2 Eb's
4 Bb's (Rossi, Selmer, Buffet, metal)
1 Eb Alto
1 Bb Bass
1 Eb Contra
1 Bb contra
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Author: Brian
Date: 2002-03-06 11:01
2 Bb's- 1 wooden and my plastic Bundy from school days...man am I old!
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Author: A David Peacham
Date: 2002-03-06 12:42
One. But I do own two mouthpieces and two ligatures. Hey big spender.
Wes - I have to ask - what the expletive deleted is a slide bass? A trombone with a clarinet mouthpiece? An ordinary bass with loose joints? I have heard of (but never seen) a recorder with a slide mechanism, but a clarinet???
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Author: Jean Adler
Date: 2002-03-06 13:15
I own the following:
Eb one (Buffet)
Bb four (Rossi, Marigaux, Leblanc, and an antique metal for show only)
A one (Leblanc)
bass one )Buffet)
As you can see I am not partial to any one brand. The Leblanc Bb was my dad's and my first clarinet. I am so glad I had the where withall to keep this instrument. SO many people get rid of instruments only to regret it later. The Rossi is my primary clarinet, but for certain works I prefer the Marigaux which I am told is boxwood, not grenadilla.
Jean
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Author: Stephane
Date: 2002-03-06 14:55
3 Bbs (1 plastic yamaha, 1 intermediate wooden Buffet and 1 pro wooden Selmer). I shall go for an A shortly (can not make up my mind between Buffet and Selmer... or maybe Leblanc then?)
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Author: Chrissie
Date: 2002-03-06 16:19
Hmmm... and I thought carrying around my three was cumbersome... though I have 4 if you include the plastic baby I started on =)
1 Eb
2 Bb
1 A
I'm still at the beginning of the road it seems.
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Author: William Hughes
Date: 2002-03-06 17:44
So far, I get totals of:
22 - Eb
136 - Bb
25 - A
10 - C
1 - D
3 - Basset F
11 - Eb Alto
14 - Bb Bass
5 - EEb Contra Alto
2 - BBb Contra Bass
1 - Lamp
1 - Moroccan double-bored
1 - Slide Bass
2 - Partidges
2 - Pear Trees
Several Miscellaneous
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-03-06 20:10
I guess I'm not the only sicko with too many instruments. To date I have Bb= 1 hard rubber, 3 metal, 2 plastic, 4 woodies, Eb Leblanc contra. Plus, because I'm beyond help, 1 Eb tuba, 1 euphonium, 1 trombone, 1 cornet, 1 French horn, 1 oboe, 2 recorders that frustrate me, 1 Hammond M-3. As for horses, I buried one and sold the other two.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-03-06 20:17
I don't own any--they all own me!!! All these years and I still haven't had enough clarinet gig earnings to pay them off. But anyhow: 1-C, 2-Eb sops, 7-Bb, 2-A, 1-bass
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Author: Jill
Date: 2002-03-06 20:28
All mine are Bb sopranos:
1 Series 10 Mazzeo
1 Bundy Mazzeo
1 Artley with gold keys
1 brand new BLUE clarinet--just because it was pretty.
3 metal clarinets made into lamps
1 more Bundy Mazzeo--lower joint and bell made into a lamp.
--No need to tell me how some of y'all feel about the lamps. I know. My husband made them--and he made an alto saxophone into a lamp too. He is looking hungrily at the blue clarinet. . .
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-06 20:44
Well - now - you must be a dealer or collector or an obsessive then William Hughes? :-) I'm staggered!
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-03-07 00:26
Diz, the comment on the lamp was... I'm not sure if this evil thing is done in Australia. In America we occasionally take a bad clarinet and build a lamp from it, using the clarinet itself as the lamppost. (Barbarian Americans!!)
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Author: Lawrence
Date: 2002-03-07 00:40
Only one.
It appears as though clarinets are really like martinis:
one's not enough, two's too many, and three's not NEARLY enough!
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Author: Pam
Date: 2002-03-07 02:03
A mere 2 Bb's - one ancient plastic, one my good wood horn.
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-07 02:21
One bass (finally!!! a bass of my very own!!!!).
Used to own a Bb years ago. It eventually needed repadding, I needed cash, by the time I came to my senses, the guy had sold it. Anyway, I really wanted a bass.
Years before that, I had owned an Artley that I used for high school marching band and for practicing when I didn't have access to a bass. I used that to pay the rent one month during the Reagan years.
Before that, I had started on an old plastic clarinet that had belonged to my mother. No idea what model that was.
What else I own: one Irish whistle in D; one small maraca (sp?) courtesy of HelpSystems AS/400 training; one $50 Casio keyboard that I used for practicing the year I studied voice, and find useful for working through tunes I make up inside my head (the little voices don't have perfect pitch).
What else I have played: Bassoon. Bari sax. Alto sax.
What else I would like to own: MORE basses!!! Buhwahahah.
A bassoon and a tenor sax would be nice, too. And maybe a soprano clarinet. Bodhrans are cool, but they're harder to play than they look, and I just don't have the wrist action down. Mainly, I think I'm just going to become one helluva bass clarinetist and form a band with my siblings. We're thinking of calling it "Earwigs in Paradise."
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-03-07 03:07
Sally... If I wasn't just talking about clarinets... I'd have a long long list.
The Clarinets listed above.
1 Trumpet
1 Flute in need of repair
1 Saxophone
1 British Fife (I think)
4 Ocarinas
1 Recorder
4 Pennywhistles
1 Glass Flute
4 Guitars, one unfinished homemade
1 Dulcimer
1 Mandolin
1 Psaltry
1 Lap Harp
1 Hurdygurdy (I love saying that. It confuses people.)
And more that I can't think of off the top of my head. Can you tell I'm a sucker for woodwinds and Celtic/Old European instruments?
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Author: William Hughes
Date: 2002-03-07 04:27
diz -
If all those clarinets were all mine, I would surely no longer have the company of my lovely (and almost infinitely patient) wife and I would have a permanent room reserved in my name at the poor house. I am on record that the last clarinet I bought is the last clarinet I will buy....for now....until I might need another one. No, I was obsessive enough to add up all of the previous posts to this thread out of curiosity and, apparently, way too much time on my hands.
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-07 04:30
Oh, yeah, I used to have an alto recorder (and a soprano one, too, come to think of it...wonder where they went?...dig, dig...) and a guitar which I gave to my sister and her husband because they were looking for one. I bought my sister a hammered dulcimer one year -- she's rather big on the Celtic/folk thing herself -- and just recruited her to play in Earwigs in Paradise -- though she wants to come up with a different name (not sure why). I also recall noodling on tuba when I was in high school. Basically, if it can make music, I want to try it. :-D
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2002-03-07 10:29
Hi dave
Albert/Simple/Oehler
1 A
4 Bb
1 Eb
Boehm
1 A
1 Bb
1 Eb
and a lot of saxophones, a cor anglais, an oboe, a couple of bassoons and a lot of flutes.
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Author: Andge
Date: 2002-03-07 12:06
I own two clarinets:
1 - old beat up B flat Yamaha c100 plastic
1 - nice wooden B flat Buffet
I also play a rusty Noblet E flat at school.
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-03-07 12:40
I personally only possess the ones I need. B flat, A and E flat picc.
Let me tell you, though, about a good friend who has a dangerous obsession.
He owns
A flat (Boehm)
G (Albert)
E flat
D
C
B flat (several plus he's in the process of MAKING one)
A (several)
A Basset cl.
G (Turkish)
Basset horn
Alto
Bass in B flat
Bass in A
Contra in E flat
Contra in B flat
The only thing i've seen that he hasn't got is a piccolo B flat, I daren't mention this to him
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Author: Mike
Date: 2002-03-07 17:06
42 Bb
40 A
19 Eb
3 D
2 C
3 Ab
4 Basset Horn
2 Basset Clarinet
4 Eb Altos
3 Bb Bass
2 EEb Contra Alto
1 BBb Contra Bass
& almost a pension, but I have my eye on a new Contra bass.
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Author: LynnB
Date: 2002-03-07 18:08
Hey Mike! Are you sure you're not a dealer!
Well my list looks puny
Bb 1 beauty and 1 that doesn't work
A 1
but I'm thinking about an Eb on day....
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Author: Mike
Date: 2002-03-07 19:27
No I am not sure if I am a dealer. If I am poor or penniless, does that make me a musician?
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Author: charlie c
Date: 2002-03-07 19:50
Wow, what a thread. Seems like everyone wants to brag about their "children" ;->
So, I own One (1) ancient Bb which I purchased used 50 years ago.
and (1) B HP Albert which will soon be room illuminating device. Do I hear any offers??
I didn't see any other B clarinets on this thread.
I'll not try to list all the other instruments because I might forget one and it will be offended.
Cheers. Charlie C.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-07 20:47
Charlie - I'm with you there - feeling very mediocre about only owning 1 clarinet! (but my 2500 odd CD collection might have been a hinderance?)
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Author: Tom Roche
Date: 2002-03-07 23:53
Hello,
My List of clarinets:
4 Bb's
2 A's
2 Eb's
and my teenage son has 2 Bb's
and my wife says that's enough!!!!
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Author: Josh
Date: 2002-03-08 02:05
(1) Eb
(1) C
(3) Bb
(2) A
(1) A basset clarinet
(1) Eb alto
(1) Bb bass
(1) EEb contra
almost 70 replies...wow, this has to be a record
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-03-08 05:05
Today, I determined that my Pear Tree has died. This puts it rather on a par with one of my Bb clarinets, a plastic thing marked "Champion." The Partridge lives on.
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Author: leo
Date: 2002-03-10 23:32
4 Bb consisting of:
rampone milano brevettato
r. malerne standard paris
vito reo-tone 3 usa
6-key hp paris
3 of the above woods are basket cases and need overhaul and are not in playing codition. the plastic sounds good. i would love to play an r13 some day while my fingers still work.
leo
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Author: Jas
Date: 2002-03-11 04:40
Hang on... let me count 'em................
..... One......
Bb Sop.
:o) Jas
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Author: Kat
Date: 2002-03-18 01:59
OK, even though no one will look at my reply (the last being almost a week before my posting...), here goes:
4 Bb-Buffet R13, Signet (my first horn), HP Bb Albert, and my father-in-law's old metal horn
1 A clarinet
1 Turkish G clarinet (on which I actually do perform Turkish and Greek music)
I also have 2 flutes, a handful of penny whistles, a wonderful Moravian wooden whistle, an accordion, a Finnish kantele, an Armenian duduk, and some cheap PVC Native American flute. I am also in possession of several instruments belonging to the group with which I play: a D prim, a Bulgarian kaval, a Turkish kaval, a Serbian frula, and a zurna.
Things I want (Donations gladly accepted): Selmer Full-Boehm Bb, LP Bb Albert, LP C Albert, C Boehm, a new Buffet Bb, my own Bulgarian kaval, a (set of) Macedonian kaval(s), a Bulgarian gaida and a Macedonian gaida.
Of course, I haven't included my husband's 2 tubas or the 3 other ones he wants, and I haven't includedthe 950+ cd's we own...hehe!
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