Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1996/01

From: Dave Lane <davelane@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: source for tube cane
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:50:10 -0500

At 08:54 AM 1/1/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anybody have a good source(s) for tube cane? Drop me a line if you
>do. Many thanks!
>
>
>=========================================
>David Bourque
>bassethn@-----.com
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>
Yes, I do. I've been buying cane from Guy Hardy at The Proboe Shop. He is
an oboist, but sells clarinet cane as well. He has been doing this for over
20 years, and gets his cane from a single supplier in the Var Valley. His
cane is seperated and stored by vintage. The cane I got just the other day
is called 95 vintage, but was cut in the winter of 1991-1992. It is
sheathed and dried in whole stalks for the first year, then cut and cured
some more. This is an excellent year for cane, apparently.

Clarinet cane is $40/lb plus postage. This is thick-walled cane, 23-25 mm
diameter with walls 4-6mm thick. This makes reeds of the V-12 profile
without a problem. He has cane in various other sizes, to accomodate oboes
through bassoon, sax and contra-basoon and -clarinet sizes. His guarantee
is that he will replace any tube that falls outside one's "initial sorting
criteria". In other words, you get to skim the best if you want to. I
bought three pounds this time, about 40 tubes, and perhaps 5 had a flaw that
would make one blank out of the four cut from the tube unuseable. I
wouldn't go to the trouble for that!

Guy is a great person to deal with. Contact him at (812)336-1173, or
ghardy@-----. He checks email about every three days when the
university is in session.

Best Regards

Dave Lane