TrueTone
College Student who likes wind instruments & music
(Do we really not have a cases subforum anywhere? I could swear we did.)
So, I bought a trio of clarinets from an estate sale on the 8th, and have had them for about a week and a half now.
I received, in no real order:
A Selmer Radio Improved (I think? No model name visible. It's early L series.) Bb.
A T Berteling Bb that has a replacement Buffet E&S Barrel.,
an F Barbier C, (coincidentally one identical to it is on ebay, but with no mention of F Barbier in the listing...let's see what that goes for before I give a link to that...)
and a huge box of parts, repair stuff, and some old random stuff that I'm not sure what it's for. (more on the rest of this stuff later.)
So does anyone here have any affordable (I.e. not really expensive, like the Lomax and for some reason, stock Buffet...) C Clarinet cases?
This C came in a Bb pochette case that doesn't really fit it well.
I'll take some pictures of it next to the Selmer and Berteling tomorrow or Tuesday.
From when I tried playing the solo near the end of Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana on it, it sounded nice, although it's still extremely leaky-I can't play anything below low G and Clarion D. The Selmer Bb is better in that regard, as it's able to play a full chromatic scale, although it's also rather leaky and the corks have fallen off of the keys in some spots so intonation feels a bit wonky, and the E/B key's spring is broken. The Berteling's completely leaky and I can't really get much of anything out on it.
I'm going to send Thierry Doublon an email about this (and my Brevete A Clarinet, too, as I've been putting off doing that) to see if I can get any production info on this...
Also, I find it amusing how close in design it is to this Couesnon C:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-C-C...934771?hash=item362949c673:g:vesAAOSwBRFaLCsL
Basically the only differences are in the lower joint F/C key design and the trill key guide. Shows how close in design some clarinets can be...
And now would be a good time for me to go to sleep...
edit: grr, the tags randomly add a space after any word that's tagged. That's annoying...
So, I bought a trio of clarinets from an estate sale on the 8th, and have had them for about a week and a half now.
I received, in no real order:
A Selmer Radio Improved (I think? No model name visible. It's early L series.) Bb.
A T Berteling Bb that has a replacement Buffet E&S Barrel.,
an F Barbier C, (coincidentally one identical to it is on ebay, but with no mention of F Barbier in the listing...let's see what that goes for before I give a link to that...)
and a huge box of parts, repair stuff, and some old random stuff that I'm not sure what it's for. (more on the rest of this stuff later.)
So does anyone here have any affordable (I.e. not really expensive, like the Lomax and for some reason, stock Buffet...) C Clarinet cases?
This C came in a Bb pochette case that doesn't really fit it well.
I'll take some pictures of it next to the Selmer and Berteling tomorrow or Tuesday.
From when I tried playing the solo near the end of Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana on it, it sounded nice, although it's still extremely leaky-I can't play anything below low G and Clarion D. The Selmer Bb is better in that regard, as it's able to play a full chromatic scale, although it's also rather leaky and the corks have fallen off of the keys in some spots so intonation feels a bit wonky, and the E/B key's spring is broken. The Berteling's completely leaky and I can't really get much of anything out on it.
I'm going to send Thierry Doublon an email about this (and my Brevete A Clarinet, too, as I've been putting off doing that) to see if I can get any production info on this...
Also, I find it amusing how close in design it is to this Couesnon C:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-C-C...934771?hash=item362949c673:g:vesAAOSwBRFaLCsL
Basically the only differences are in the lower joint F/C key design and the trill key guide. Shows how close in design some clarinets can be...
And now would be a good time for me to go to sleep...
edit: grr, the tags randomly add a space after any word that's tagged. That's annoying...