Klarinet Archive - Posting 000637.txt from 1996/03

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: That Holland Opus movie thing
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:17:26 -0500

On Sun, 24 Mar 1996, Neil Leupold wrote:

> I was teaching a student the other day, and he mentioned that a plastic
> clarinet was used in the movie which, as far as he knew, was a mistake.
> I haven't seen the movie and do not know when it is set, but he stated
> that it was set in the 50's or 60's. He stated that plastic clarinets
> were not first manufactured until sometime in the early 70's. Is this
> correct? I'm not up on my plastic clarinet trivia, but this seemed an
> interesting notion if true.

My first clarinet was a plastic Pan-American, made by Conn, which I got
in 1949.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu