Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 1994/07
From: Clark W Fobes <reedman@-----.COM> Subj: Metal Clarinets Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 16:17:39 -0400
I don't want to get this whole debate started again and did not mean to
denigrate metal clarinets for their material.
I was not aware that Selmer made a professional model metal clarinet. I
am sure it is probably very well made. I did mention the Haynes clarinets
that I have seen that are beautiful.
My problem with metal clarinets is that many, many student model
clarinets were made that really are junk. Unless you have sat at a repair
bench 50 hours a week in a stuffy shop in 100 degree weather working on
these things all summer you have no idea how poorly most of them are
constructed .
I am interested in the development of the metal clarinet. Since they
began to appear in the 30's I wonder if it was an answer to lack of blackwood
from Africa due to the Nazi occupation in North Africa. Not being a WWII
historian, I may have the dates confused
Any answers out there?
Clark W Fobes
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