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Newbie help required please!

Author: cezzy
Date: 2007-01-12 18:23

Hi all,

I have a thirteen year daughter who took up the clarinet just over 2 years ago. She has come on leaps and bounds and just been given a place on the city junior youth orchestra. Her clarinet tutor is one word and that is fantastic! My daughter has also been lucky enough to have the same music teacher up until last July who also was a clarinet player. He took my daughter under his wing and his constant encouragement did her the world of good.

So I shall get to my point. My daughter is currently is using her standard student Buffet Bb B12 which is fine instrument for the job but my daughter is now playing in so many differing activities, (school orchestra, school big band, school wind ensemble, anything else the school asks her to do, city clarinet ensemble, city wind band, and now the city junior youth orchestra) and would like to try a differing sound but has no idea what she wants? We have been offered a friend's Boosey and Hawkes 1010 Symphony Bb clarinet and as I have no experience of clarinets at all, I would value any opinions please?

My friend has offered to let my daughter borrow the 1010 which my daughter has accepted and my daughter is going to speak to her clarinet tutor tomorrow to ask his opinion. All by luck, my friend and my daughter's tutor both know each other and it was my daughter's tutor who advised my friend to buy a third clarinet thus forcing her to sell her beloved 1010! Don't think it is a conspiracy, just circumstance.

So any opinions please on the clarinet and also is it a good one for my daughter to move onto? Or does it matter? Her tutor will obviously give good feedback but I value listening to others who have experience with this instrument as I have none.

Many thanks in advance (I hope)

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