Klarinet Archive - Posting 000307.txt from 1999/04

From: "J&K Morgan" <morgan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wood/plastic, etc...
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:59:39 -0400

I second that motion. If all I played was symphonic music in a
symphony hall, wood would be fine. As it stands, as a community
band player, I need to keep 2 basses - one for indoors and one for
outdoors. I would have loved to buy a greenline bass or its
equilavent so I could just use one instrument.

John Morgan
Bass player with double instruments.

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Date sent: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:43:52 -0600
From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Wood/plastic, etc...

> The debate about wood vs plastic is as old as, well, the time that
> clarinets have been made of plastics.
>
> Here is what I would like to see: I would like all of the major clarinet
> makers, Buffet, Selmer, Leblanc and Yamaha make a couple of dozen
> clarinets out of plastic. These instruments, as near as they can be
> made, should represent their finest models with as exacting a set of
> tolerances as they try to maintain with their best wooden clarinet
> making efforts. The bores would be the same, again, as close as they
> could be done in plastic, and would be poly cylindrical (if that is what
> their flagship instrument is), would have the same formula used for tone
> hole size, placement and undercutting (if done) as their best
> instruments. They would have keys fit by their best key fitters, would
> be padded by the same best padders that do their best wooden
> instruments, would be regulated and final finished with the same time
> and attention paid to them as their wooden counterparts.
>
> At this point, they could tour through countries, trade shows,
> conventions, etc. and be evaluated next to wooden versions of the same.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, this has never been done. As it stands now,
> we're still talking apples and oranges. I for one, would love to play
> Leblanc's or Buffet's best instruments made with plastic bodies.
>
> Such an experiment would be most interesting.
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> Richard Bush
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