Backun Lumière Bb/A Clarinet - Cocobolo Bb Clarinet

Backun Lumière Bb/A Clarinet - Cocobolo Bb ClarinetIn 2000, Morrie Backun was running a repair shop in Vancouver when Wes Foster principal clarinet of the Vancouver Symphony brought in a clarinet with a missing barrel. Rather than order a replacement, Morrie made one from cocobolo. That barrel launched Backun Musical Services. Barrels led to bells (2001), bells to mouthpieces (2004), mouthpieces to a stint designing clarinets for Leblanc (20062010), and when that ended, Morrie launched his own

I'm super impressed with Royal

that would be pretty cool

inside which is a 2" (5cm) stainless steel weight

it's less expensive

especially the tone hole surface that meets the pad

(Because I didn’t want to learn it in F# major either

now I get to tell my story about Morrie Backun

I learned pretty quickly that he changed mouthpieces like most people change reeds

at least your bass clarinet peg is now geopolitically significant

So I asked: what's up with the rubber in these

The Polaris is an instrument that is free-blowing but which provides some push-back

and clean acoustical finish work