Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 1994/10

From: "Jay Heiser, Business Development" <jayh@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Other woods (the bell curves for several reasons)
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 14:57:02 -0400

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-->On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, Steve Prescott wrote:
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-->> Regarding what Timothy stated about the Pan American "rosewood"
-->> clarinet. This might me the "plywood" clarinet I wrote about
-->> earlier...beware!
-->
-->I'll see if I can try it out and give it a good look over. Of course, I
-->have a good B-flat (metal!), so won't really be shopping. The store also
-->has a Keilwerth STRAIGHT alto saxophone, the only on the west coast,
-->which I'm even more eager to try (and I'm not really a saxophonist!).

I'm curious about you're reaction to that thing. I haven't actually
played it (no mouthpiece with me), but I had a chance to hear the
Keilworth rep play the thing here in DC at the annual sax conf the
Navy Band sponsors. I think its sounds a bit honky. I prefer the
sound of the old curved sopranos to the straight ones too, although
I'm only aware of one vendor making them now (Yanigasawa).

Rasaan Roland Kirk used to play some of these (giving them names
like Strich) and they sounded interesting when he played them, but he's
sort of an acquired taste. ;-)
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