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Author: BbMajorBoy
Date: 2014-03-17 21:33
First topic starter yey!
Do any of you guys out there like to keep your first instruments? I cant imaging letting it go, it just feels special... or am i crazy...
Leonard Bernstein: "To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."
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Author: ned
Date: 2014-03-17 21:38
My first clarinet was a B&H Boehm system - I gave it away to a bloke when I switched to Albert/simple system. I don't think anyone would be interested in my ''no-name'' simple, so I have hung on to it since 1967.
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Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2014-03-17 22:03
Had to sell my first clarinet (1953 made) B&H Emperor in 1958 to help fund a pair of 1946 Imperials but soon after came across a virtually identical Emperor (made within months of my first one) which I used as an "outdoor" clarinet and still have this one today.
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Author: MSK
Date: 2014-03-18 04:04
I kept my first clarinet, a plastic Artley, for marching and as a back up initially. Later when I was an adult who had a better back up and no longer marched, I kept it because I was to lazy to bother selling it. Now my child uses it for marching and as his backup.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2014-03-18 03:14
My first clarinet was a dreadful Pan-Am. I was overjoyed to get rid of it and step up to a Bundy.
Ken Shaw
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Author: BobD
Date: 2014-03-18 11:24
I often wish I had kept it simply for nostalgia. In my mind it was an Andre Ruelan, wood, unplated keywork with plastic bell and barrel. I've never seen that make mentioned anywhere.
Bob Draznik
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Author: PaulIsaac
Date: 2014-03-18 16:06
My first clarinet was a rental. Armstrong was the brand as I recall. I was so happy to see the end of that thing when I bought my Buffet!
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2014-03-18 13:13
I kept my first clarinet, a 1957 wooden Conn Director. My dad bought it for me new when I first joined the elementary school band. He wanted me to have something better than the plastic Bundy. The Bundies of that decade were terrible. Dad suspected -- rightly, it turned out -- that the local music store had bribed the music teacher to recommend purchasing them there. The excellent teacher nearly got fired soon afterwards when the truth came out.
Dad bought my clarinet at a different store near his office. He chose the Conn because the salesman said wooden "intermediate" clarinets were better than plastic "beginner" instruments and because Dad knew the reputation of C. G. Conn brasses and saxes from pre-WWII days. He didn't know that the Conn name had been sold after C. G. Conn died.
The snowplow making the rounds on Snow Patrick's Day this Monday could drive through the 12ths on this clarinet and I wish someone had realized when I was a child that the original mouthpiece-shaped object would do better as a doorstop. But yeah, I'm keeping that old Conn forever, in its green-and-white case, complete with the white first-aid tape I stuck on there to patch up the place where my bicycle horn rubbed through the plastic when I carried the case to and from school with the case handle looped over the bike handlebar. I love my dad and I love the way he tried to help his kids make music.
Lelia
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2014-03-18 20:38
My first clarinet was a Bundy bass on loan from my school. So awful it was, I've never wanted to touch a Bundy bass since.
When it was time to get a (soprano) clarinet of my own, I paid extra for a handpicked, better-than-average Vito 7214. It's been lovingly maintained by excellent technicians over the years, and just gets better and better with each service.
I imagine I'll never part with it--it's set up just the way I like, and utterly reliable. I use it regularly for outdoors gigs.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2014-03-19 16:06
Ursa/Greg.....I started playing Bb Sop cl. in 1939 and never played a Bass Cl. until recently. It's a used Bundy I bough on eBay and I really enjoy playing it. I would encourage you to give it another try. I'm pretty sure your old Bundy needed some significant adjustments. I am also a Vito 7214 player/restorer.....the older ones made in Kenosha.....I also play Buffet r13s , also older ones. My 7214s play as well as the r13s .
Bob Draznik
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Author: Funfly
Date: 2014-03-19 16:12
My first clarinet was a student B&H bought in 1954 and sold to give me a deposit on a drum kit. Took me nearly 60 years to buy my second clarinet, a Buffet B12 which I am now trying to sell as my third and current one is my lovely Yamaha SE.
Martyn Thatcher Mature Student Cheshire U.K.
Clarinet - Yamaha SE Custom
Alto Sax - Yamaha YAS 480
Guitar - Yamaha FG 375-S
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Author: ruben
Date: 2014-03-20 01:06
I feel that clarinets, like dogs, should either be kept or given away, but never sold. Unlike dogs, one doesn't have to go through the heart-breaking act of putting them down.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2014-03-20 02:58
I LOVE my 1959 Bundy and would never part with it...for sentimental reasons. It actually was a decent clarinet!
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Author: Siq
Date: 2014-03-20 19:50
I would like to keep my student-level clarinet, but then I wouldn't be able to afford my new one :X
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