Klarinet Archive - Posting 000788.txt from 1999/08

From: Lisa Canjura-Clayton <lisakc@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] want a metal clarinet
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:02:27 -0400

At 10:11 PM 08/25/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>AAAAAGH!....Don't make lamps. Fix 'em up and learn to play 'em. They're
>great for jazz & blues. Grteat for a quick practice session too 'cuz you
>can dont waste time putting a bunch of peices together and then cleaning all
>those peices when your through. If I only have a few minutes in my schedule
>to practice, I grab on of my old "lightning rods", slap it together, play my
>scales & arppegios, slap it back in the box. I'm much more finicky about my
>Buffet and would spend valuable practice time on assembly, Disassembly
>cleaning etc. Some days Imay only have 5-10 minutes once or twice a day to
>practice so I can't waste it....Willie

You know, I've yet to play a metal clarinet that sounded decent enough to
blow jazz through. Most of them are horribly out of tune-- the throat
tones are noticeably flat, the altissimo range is usually unplayable, the
intonation is so bad. It takes a LOT of adjustment to get them to play
even a dime within the actual note. Of course, I've never had the
opportunity to play on a DECENT metal horn such as the $3700.00 Haynes
double-walled I deeply coveted (needed a new car more). Otherwise, those
old Conns and Pan-Americans still do make better lamps. For jazz? Go find
an old Selmer CT or BT.

Lisa Canjura-Clayton
lisakc@-----.com

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