Klarinet Archive - Posting 000595.txt from 1997/01

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Wood /Plastic Clarinets-WHY? (fwd)
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:56:56 -0500

I meant for the different manufactures to copy their own top of the line
horns in plastic. A plastic Opus, R-13, CS, etc. I doubt it can be done
with successful results, or it would have been done already.

>for David B.:
>Copy WHICH wooden clarinet? I don't just mean which model....
>Roger Shilcock
>
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:29:30 -0500
>From: David C. Blumberg <reedman%EROLS.COM@-----.UK>
>To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET <KLARINET=VCCSCENT>
>Subject: Wood /Plastic Clarinets-WHY?
>
>Not wanting to throw gas on a fire that doesn't exist yet, but:
>Why don't the big manufacturers copy the exact bore, tonehole placement,
>etc. ,etc. on the plastic clarinets, to make the perfect clarinet -IF, and
>only IF the tone is the same between wood, and plastic. And don't tell me
>the equivalent of "a common cold virus cure exists, but the cold symptom
>industry suppresses it".
>

David C. Blumberg
reedman@-----.com
Principal Clarinet Riverside Symphonia
Adjunct Woodwind Instructor Univ. of Penn,. Bryn Mawr College

   
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