Klarinet Archive - Posting 000289.txt from 1999/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Evette Clarinets
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 17:38:59 -0500

At 04:49 PM 2/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Schexnayder <carlsche@-----.net>
>To: klarinet@-----.org>
>Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 2:54 PM
>Subject: Re: Re: [kl] Evette Clarinets
>
>
>>
>>... I should have said, it has never come to that. I can always find a
>really
>>good price on a used Noblet or Normandy. I get good mouthpieces, barrels,
>>ligatures, etc. , for all of my students and have had some play on plastic
>>clarinets in the past, but never to my satisfaction. Maybe the newer ones
>>are better these days, but I haven't yet heard one that sounded like a
>>wooden clarinet.
>>Carl Schexnayder
>
>
>A used Normandy or Noblet in proper playing condition will run a couple of
>hundred dollars so could still be too much for some people.
>
>Let me put it this way. When I was a kid, my family was very poor. The
>only reason that I got to be in band was because some one GAVE my father a
>clarinet in playing condition. Even buying reeds was a hardship and I
>protected them like they were gold. If my band director had required a
>better one, my family could not have purchased it no matter how good a deal
>he had tracked down unless it was free.
>
>Fortunately, these days I can afford better as engineering is a pretty good
>paying profession but I learned to play, made first chair throughout
>elementary, junior high, high school, made 1 ratings every year at
>All-State, etc. on the sorriest piece of junk you have ever seen. Would you
>have relegated such a student to second band because they couldn't afford
>better equipment?
>
>
>Dee Hays
>Canton, SD
>
Maybe we need a double-blind test of wood vs plastic. (Hows that for a
conversation-stopper?)

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