Klarinet Archive - Posting 000857.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Aluminum & Plastic Buffets
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 19:35:30 -0400

At 05:01 PM 9/23/98 -0400, Duncan McRoberts wrote:
>You would not want an aluminium clarinet. I have a student in my Jazz Band
with an
>aluminium Tenor sax and it sounds horrible, almost like a toy, and it's
not him
>because I've heard him play on a real horn. I imagine an aluminium
clarinet would
>be similar.
>
Really?!?!?! An aluminum saxophone? Please get the particulars -- maker,
etc. Ornette Coleman used to have a plastic one, probably one of the
reasons he sounded like Ornette Coleman.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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