Klarinet Archive - Posting 000662.txt from 1996/03

From: nancy buckman <znjb@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: That Holland Opus movie thing
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:50:07 -0500

I have a Bundy Resonite Clarinet that I first bought when I was in the Seventh
grade in 1963. I think Resonite is the same thing as plastic.

Nancy Buckman
znjb@-----.net

At 09:17 AM 3/25/96 -0600, you wrote:
>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
>
>