Klarinet Archive - Posting 001258.txt from 1998/05

From: "Sheryl L. Katz" <slkatz@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] "Best" Plastic Clarinet
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 21:46:16 -0400

I've got a Yamaha YCL 64 that I play every day when I'm home, but my job
demands a certain amount of travel. Not wanting to damage my Yamaha, I have
a Selmer Bundy about 20 years old or so that someone gave me; it is plastic.
I hate it.

The sound, with a decent mouthpiece isn't that bad, but when I switch to it
it feels sort of wierd. I can't exactly say why I hate it, but the Yamaha
feels like it was made to fit into my hands and the mechanisms feel good,
the Bundy feels oddly wrong. I'm thinking of getting another plastic
clarinet and getting rid of this bundy. Does anyone have a recommendation.
I don't want an expensive instrument but something that I could live with
being damaged or stolen.

I'm considering the Vito, the Buffet B-12 and the Yamaha YCL-20. Is there
any reason to think that the Yamaha mechanisms would feel remotely like
those on my YCL-64? This isn't easy to test just by picking up an
instrument and playing a few scales on - it's something that I become more
aware of the more I play the instrument.

Or, is one of the other student instruments clearly "better." They claim to
have undercut holes which the Yamaha does not. Are they all just as cheaply
made as my bundy?

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