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RE: Buffet's and Leblancs

Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2001-09-25 18:26

I recently restored a Boosey & Hawkes Symphony 1010 for a gentleman out on the Left (Incorrect) Coast of the U.S. of A. It was a lovely instrument, with a really nice sound that I found to be noticeably different than the French-clarinet sound we're used to here in the Colonies. The intonation was better than I expected, after all the scary things I'd read about big-bore English clarinets. I think it's a shame that the current generation of English players seems to have abandoned the 1010 and their unique sound, and the U.K clarinetists now sound just like everyone else. I'm not a big fan of musical homogeneity. I used to be able to identify at least the national origin of an orchestra, if not the exact identify of the orchestra, by listening to the oboe and/or clarinet sounds for a minute or so. Nowadays, every orchestra anywhere in the world sounds like every other orchestra to me, partly because the clarinet (and, to a lesser degree, the double-reed) players all sound pretty much alike. Although this is certainly a controversial topic, IMHO there used to be fairly well-defined national "schools" of clarinet playing, but these are gone now (if they ever existed at all).

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