Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2016-10-26 22:41
In my opinion you are correct. Also the hardness of the wood matters a great deal, or even the plastic barrels. I prefer the thinner walls for the reason that too dark can often be misleading. I've said this before that sounding dark in a studio is not the same as sounding dark in a hall, in which you may not be heard. So in this case dark is dead.
Stay with the 10S, check for intonation, have your fellow friends hear you in the back of a hall to check the projection. The Recital clarinet has an amazing sound but for orchestra playing I think the Signature was designed for that type of playing. But I am NOT a Selmer player, but I've played these horns and really like both models a lot. The Recital is much more heavier in weight so the sound shouldn't carry as far in a large orchestra, or perhaps I should say you have to work a lot harder. However in a quintet type of setting I feel it is an amazing horn and the 10s barrel you have may be the trick to being able to play it in a large concert hall.
Oh, the key work is amazing.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
Yamaha Artist 2015
Post Edited (2016-10-26 22:45)
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