Klarinet Archive - Posting 000273.txt from 1998/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Red Reso-tone
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:55:15 -0400

At 06:54 PM 7/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I found something interesting at a garage sale yesterday. It's a Vito
>Reso-tone, but it's bright red! I thought about buying it, but can't really
>afford it right now unless I know that it's worth more than my sick desire
>to own a red clarinet for reasons unknown even to me.
>
>Has anyone ever heard of these? Are they rare, and something to snatch up
>when seen? or are they so much fluff?

I've got the LeBlanc catalog of Vito and Holton instruments right here, so
this is authoritative:-).

The red clarinet is a Dazzler. That's the model name. It's the same as
the 7212, their entry-level plastic horn. It comes in red, yellow, white,
green, and blue. All the colors make the thing look like it glows in the
dark. From the copy in the catalog, I think the company has designed them
to blend in with marching band uniforms, etc. I wouldn't mind owning the
blue or green one myself:-).

This is not some discontinued model. I guess they're very much around. I
think they sell for about twenty dollars more than the Basic Black 7212.
It's kind of interesting that a relatively new horn is in a garage sale.
Maybe the player made the jump to an Opus...or just quit the marching band
because everyone was laughing at this kid with the funny-looking clarinet:-).

Now, why am I assuming that the clarinet belonged to a kid?

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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