Klarinet Archive - Posting 000851.txt from 1998/02

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #683
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:54:59 -0500

My point exactly in the earlier email--my wife is a pretty good oboe
player, and can't tell the difference. After buying enough oboes to
have purchased a nice small house, she won't ever get one w/ a wood top
joint.

My dad know a bit about atmospheric dynamics--as I said, he was
literally a rocket scientist--and assured me that the material for the
horn was irrelevant once it had reached a mass where the instrument's
vibrations did not sound. Rest assured, the clarinet does NOT vibrate
when you play--the air column does. Any "vibration" you think the
instrument adds is delusion.

kjf

----Original Message Follows----
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:12:43 -0600 (CST)
From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #683

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 BCaslinger@-----.com wrote:

> Perhaps if any of the top instrument makers ever took the risk of
> producing a run of their top models in plastic and then distributed
them
> to symphony musicians and top music schools, we might finally get some
> real evidence to support what many of us have maintained for quite
some
> time.

It has already been done. Fox bassoons have been made in both plastic
and
wood for some time, and quite a few people like the plastic ones better.
Also, in addition to the Loree oboes with a plastic top joint and wooden
lower joint and bell, they also will make an all-plastic oboe. I own
one,
and it is a very fine instrument. I have had several professional
oboists
play on it, and oftentimes they are not even able to tell that it is
plastic. Sometimes, someone will play on it and comment on how much
they
like it. Then, when I tell them that it is all plastic, they suddenly
remember several points on which they find fault with the instrument.

Ed Lacy
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