Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 1994/05

From: Jeff Bowles <jab@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Clark Fobes' remarks on clarinet cheapness
Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 10:41:00 -0400

Roger Shilcock writes:
``Well, they don't look so cheap on this side of the pond -
apart from plastic "student" instruments with appalling
keywork..''

A friend who plays the oboe mentioned to me that there is a plastic
oboe (or ebonite or something, but you get the idea) that's carefully
crafted and has a pretty decent sound. They take time to make it,
so that its cost is nearly that (or just above that) of a wooden
oboe.

There are certain situations where a non-wood instrument would be
handy to have. But not a cheapo one that sounds like a cat in heat....

Jeff Bowles