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 Re: why do clrinetists avoid boosey hawkes?
Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr. 
Date:   2010-05-29 01:49

This thread is very interesting; I've known about B&H clarinets since the late 1950's and still have the B&H 8-10 that my parents bought for me from the Bandstand Music Store in Westfield NJ. Especially interesting is that the store supplied (for rental) B&H ebonite clarinets to new 5th grade students who signed up to play clarinet in the band. So the majority of the clarinet players in the 5th grade band played B&H! At the end of the school year, my parents bought me the wooden 8-10, which I played through the 8th grade; it cost $200.

The band director was a professional clarinetist, with a fine pedigree (Bellison/Bonade); I studied with him. During the rental period he took me off the Claude Lakey mouthpiece. By the midpoint of 8th grade, he suggested that I upgrade to a Buffet...I would be laughed at if I played a B&H professionally!

By dint of luck, I wrote to Linx & Long in New York City and W. Hans Moennig in Philadelphia. Jack Linx sent me a terse but friendly typewritten note, inviting me to the store to look and try the professionally selected models; Hans Moennig sent a hand-written letter that laid out specific commitments for a set price. Moennig's price was lower than what Buffet would cost locally, so my parents paid him $243.75 for a new Buffet that he'd set up. It was wonderful--in tune, just right resistance, easy transition between registers.

A few years ago, I retrieved the B&H from my parents' house and sent it to David Spiegelthal. Well, he transformed the 8-10. He's told you his approach. He's modest about his work and modest in what he charges. I've had my share of adversity in life, but can't believe my good fortune in finding W Hans Moennig and David Spiegelthal. I

If I played professionally, I doubt that anybody would laugh me off the stage because of the clarinet I played; I'd wager that people would ask me how I got my clarinet to play so evenly and how each tone could sound so clear.

I can't say why B&H doesn't enjoy the reputation of Big 4, but I will pit the Spiegalized 8-10 against anybody else's brand.
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