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 How many clarinets do you own?
Author: tdinap 
Date:   2009-12-08 02:43

Hearing people talk about their "backup set", or tons of auxiliary instruments makes me wonder about this every once in awhile. I'm planning to purchase my first A clarinet this winter, and it occurred to me that it'll bring my clarinet total up to four (three in playable condition). I bet a lot of non-musicians would balk at this, but I bet I've got significantly fewer than most of the pros and equipment-junkie amateurs out there (I know if I was making a lot more money than now and/or was making a career out of it, I'd have a couple more instruments around).

Tom

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: reedfan72 
Date:   2009-12-08 03:52

As a retired band director I have three. The one I started on in 5th grade which is a wooden Bundy, A selmer series G , a selmer Bass Clarinet, plus a student horn I got for my daughter when she started band. Also have a Conn alto, a Buescher tenor, and a Couf tenor.

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: Clarimeister 
Date:   2009-12-08 06:19

Well I'm almost a junior in college and have 3 Bb's (Festival, Selmer 10G, and my student Selmer CL300) all are in playable or mostly playable condition, One R13 A, and one R13 Eb. I also own a Selmer Mark VI Tenor Sax hehe!



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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: Barry Vincent 
Date:   2009-12-08 08:07

I have two clarinets, a Bb and an A. Both are Amati Klaslice full Boehms which I purchased second hand a while back. This brand has has a bad reputation in the past for shoddy workmanship and unstable wood, but I must have got lucky with these two as they are in excellent working condition with good intonaton throughout the entire range and the wood appears stable. Suprisingly the mechanism stays in adjustment quite well also. However I feel that I need a good knockabout back-up Bb instrument and am thinking of the Schrieber plastic instrument. Does anyone know anything about these or can they give an opinion of them. There is an Australian dealer who can supply these.

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: jcfasanar 
Date:   2009-12-08 12:05

I have, 15, i think

Pair of Toscas
Pair of Wurlitzer Oehler
Pair of Recitals
2 Bb Noblets
1 E13 (was my first clarinet)
1 R13
Eb Recital
Ridenour Basset Clarinet
Rossi Bb Reform Boehm
Prestige Bass
Bundy Alto
Cheap Chinese C Clarinet (unplayable)
10 keyed D Clarinet

a lot of mouthpieces, virtually all ligature models, some barrels...

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: DixieSax 
Date:   2009-12-08 14:04

1 Buffet R-13 in Bb
1 Buffet BC20 in Bb (Full Boehm)
1 Buffet BC20 in A (Semi Full Boehm, no low Eb or LH Eb)
1 Leblanc LL Special in Bb (articulated G# and 7th ring)
1 Conn in C (older instrument, don't know model number)
1 Noblet in Eb
1 Couesnon in Bb
1 Couesnon in A
1 Jean Cartier (Malerne) Bass Clarinet to low Eb
1 8 keyed boxwood 1840ish clarinet in C
And my first clarinet, a late '60s vintage Bundy


Guess that's 11 clarinets of one kind or another. Don't get me started on saxes, flutes, oboes, bassoons and French horns.

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: Bobby McClellan 
Date:   2009-12-08 22:12

1 Buffet R13 Bb
1 Buffet Ell A
1 Ridenour Basset A
1 Conn Alto Clarinet
1 Conn 454 low E Bass clarinet
1 Yamaha ycl 221II Bass clarinet
1 Yamaha ycl 34 Bb
1 normandy #5 Bb
1 Vito EEb contra
1 Ridenout BBb contra
1 Amati 351 C clarinet

Bobby M. McClellan
Flowood, MS

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: Gandalfe 
Date:   2009-12-08 23:19

Hmm... that I'll admit too? Well not counting Suzy's as she's the real clarinet player:

Boxwood (1800s) Nine key I think
Buffet R-13 Festival Bb Sop
Selmer Paris Silver Bb Sop
Buescher Silver TruTone Bb Sop (albert keyed)
Leblanc Esprit Eb Alto
Selmer Priviledge Bb Bass to low C
Leblanc Contra Alto Eb (paperclip) to low C
Leblanc Contrabass Bb (paperclip)

Guess I should learn to play them better. It's all about the journey isn't it though.

Jim and Suzy

Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: cigleris 
Date:   2009-12-08 23:36

This is a little like Ground Hog Day or an extreme case of deja vu...

Peter Cigleris

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: Bluesparkle 
Date:   2009-12-09 01:26

I'm with Peter.

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 Re: How many clarinets do you own?
Author: weberfan 
Date:   2009-12-09 02:11




speaking of deja vu, here's a link to the last time we did this:

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=288676&t=288359

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