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Re: Corton Clarinet info?

Author: mazg
Date: 2010-03-15 05:27

Hi
My parents bought me a used Corton in England when I started high school in 1983. My barrel is also wood and the bell of ebonite. I played the Corton through high school and a few years after. It gave me no trouble (very few pads needed replacing during several years of heavy use) and sounded pretty good, at least as good as the plastic Yamaha student models my friends had.

The sound was vastly improved by a good mouthpiece, reed and ligature combo. I believe I had one of the Vandoren mouthpieces on it at the time (I only discovered this at age 15 after the clarinet rolled onto the floor in the middle of orchestra practice and the mouthpiece I had smashed, gasp!). It turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened in my clarinet career, because it had never occurred to me that mouthpieces were all that important and there were actually different models and qualities

Having said that, I definitely noticed a difference when I purchased a Noblet 27 from Peter Spriggs which is still only an intermediate model. I still have the Corton and the Noblet, and it is the Noblet that I am just picking up after almost 6 years hiatus, hence my arrival on the board today.

Have fun with the Corton!

P.S. My serial is 2152.

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