Klarinet Archive - Posting 000874.txt from 1997/11

From: Karin Steinmetz <kast0015@-----.de>
Subj: Re: top line model for beginner
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:12:28 -0500

(...)
>me. The only thing where I am careful is that the instrument cracks
>(often read on this list) or gets other defects because of the
>following.
(...)
>My questions may sound trivial or ridiculous for a person who owns a
>wooden clarinet (for a long time). But I just have no expierence in
>these things. Perhaps I am over-sensitive because of the many cracking
>reports on this list. A wrong impression?
>
>Perhaps the safest way for me would be to buy a greenline clarinet,
>but, I cannot explain why, I do not find them as aesthetic as a (pure)
>wooden clarinet.
(...)

Dirk,

before I joined this list, I almost never heard about cracked clarinets (in
Germany). It seems to me as if cracking of clarinets occurred much more
often in the U.S. (just my impression from reading the posts on this list).
And I know lots of clarinetists who use wooden clarinets for marching and
playing outside, even in winter. (Plastic clarinets are less common.)

So if your fear of cracking is your only reason to buy a Greenline, I think
you could buy a wooden clarinet as well without worrying.

Karin