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World
Class Clarinet Mouthpieces and Clarinet Products
Clarinet Mouthpieces
I have been in
business for thirteen years, supplying world-class mouthpieces and other
related products and services to clarinetists the world over. In that time period, I have handcrafted over 7400 mouthpieces.
Buffet Clarinets
I
sell new Buffet clarinets
I
often have restored used clarinets for sale.
Barrels
I
also sell handcrafted clarinet barrels.
I accept VISA,
MasterCard, Discover, and American Express credit card payments over the
phone. Call 847-266-8644 to order.
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Bass Clarinets – My Speciality
I specialize in 1193 bass clarinets. Call or
e-mail to see what I have in stock, ready for you to tryout! Or just Click on
the picture below.
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Trips to Buffet in Florida
As a authorized Buffet dealer, I always
want to present the very best products to my customers. To do this, I
periodically visit Buffet Crampon in Florida
to select the very best clarinets I can find.
I personally select and test every
clarinet that I sell. This takes time and costs money. Why do I do it? I do
it to present the best quality I possibly can. At right; Al Maniscalco,
Walter Grabner, Bruce Marking.
Click here to see current
prices and review my policies.
Click
here to see descriptions and pictures of individual clarinets that are
prepped and ready to ship immediately!
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Icelandic
Symphony Orchestra Clarinet Section Uses All Walter Grabner Mouthpieces
This is a photo of the clarinet section
of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. From left: Sigurdur Snorrason (Siggi),
Runar Oskarsson and Einar Johannesson.
As of fall 2006, they all perform on
Walter Grabner mouthpieces, including soprano, Eb soprano, bass clarinet,
and basset horn mouthpieces.
I have had the pleasure of working and
corresponding with these gentlemen for several years. Their input on my
craftsmanship has truly helped me move my art to a higher level.
For more about the Icelandic Symphony
Orchestra,
click here.
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Buffet Muncy Barrels
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Try
the NEW Buffet Muncy Barrels. They are
amazingly good.
I recommend
them for all R13 based Bb AND A clarinets. On both clarinets, I immediately
noticed a deeper richer tone, more balanced intonation, and amazing
response. This is due to Phil
Muncy’s Moennig- style taper, painstakingly cut using a six-reamer
process.
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Now available -
the
“Lawrie
Bloom” Basset Horn Mouthpiece.
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"Lawrie Bloom" Bass Clarinet Mouthpiece
Lawrie
Bloom, legendary bass clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and
I have formed a partnership to manufacture and develop the best possible
bass clarinet mouthpiece.
Made
from a Zinner blank, this mouthpiece is the product of hundreds of hours of
designing, prototyping, and testing over a period of 2 ˝ years.
This
mouthpiece COMBINES legendary Zinner quality, the experience and artistry
of Lawrie Bloom, one of the world’s great bass clarinetists, and my own
craftsmanship, honed in the production of thousands of mouthpieces.
In
the two years since this mouthpiece has been introduced, it has made its
way into professional orchestras the world over and been given high ratings
by many of the world’s finest bass clarinet players.
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If you are
interested in the Bass Clarinet, you may join the NewBassClarinetGroup, by
clicking this link:
Click to join NewBassClarinetGroup
Hope to see you
at ICA ClarinetFest next year in Lincoln, Nebraska!
Cool Links:
Attend concerts of the Chicago
Clarinet Ensemble. If you love great clarinet playing and exciting soloists.
For more information, click on this link: Chicago
Clarinet Ensemble
Dr. David Etheridge, Professor of Clarinet at the University
of Oklahoma, has authored a three volume guide for beginning, intermediate,
and advanced students and their teachers , entitled “A Practical Approach to the Clarinet”. I have reviewed them
and they are excellent. For more information, click here.
Bass clarinet players - if you don’t have the Michael Drapkin “Symphonic
Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet”, Volumes One ,Two, and
Three you are really missing out. I wish that these excerpt books
had been available when I was on the audition circuit. Every serious bass
clarinet player should have them: www.bassclarinet.net
If you want clarinet music, methods, recordings, and books.
try Gary Van Cott first. He is a woodwind.org sponsor and performs a valuable
service for the clarinet (and entire woodwind) community. He is always a
pleasure to work with. I buy all my music from him. He’s just a great guy to do business with. Here is his website: http://www.vcisinc.com/
If you want to try some great clarinet barrels (and you don’t want to get them from me), try Dr. Allen Segal. He
makes lovely clarinet barrels: http://www.clarinetconcepts.com/
Please click on the links above for information about my
products and services. To
contact me, click here.
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