Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2000/05

From: Ryan Burrage <ryangb@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Metal clarinets
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:06:48 -0400

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Of the metal clarinets I have owned and played, the ones i liked the most were:

Boehm System:

Holton Collegiate
Noblet
Bettoney(not the threestar -- the Cadet I believe)
Penzell Mueller
King/H. N. White Brass(Gold with nickel keywork)

Albert System:

Peddler
Penzel Mueller

Perhaps I may have gotten lucky with some of these but they all sounded great to
me and others. The problem I have as a jazz player is that I am dependent on
tuning barrels and well, the metals don't offer this.

Dr. Michael White told me the best metal he ever played was the Conn Double wall
-- which breaks down in five pieces and is the same size proportionally as a
standard clarinet

Franklin Kercher wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Callahan <kionon@-----.com>
> To: klarinet@-----.org>
> Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 10:18 PM
> Subject: [kl] Metal clarinets
>
> >
> >For the first time in my life last friday, I saw a metal clarinet.
> >Unfortunately it was non-functional, and even if it was my band director
> >refused to let me play it :( Well, this got me thinking, I've read about
> >them, even seen pictures of them, but only rarely; why didn't metal
> >clarinets catch on? Donny, a trumpet/trombone doubler friend of mine, said
> >because they turn green too easily, do they really corrode that badly?
> >
> >Kevin Callahan
> >If Dr. Trent makes a lamp out of that clarinet, I want it.
> >
> >
> Before WW2, metal clarinets were mass produced by thr thousands to fill a
> huge growing market for tough, durable, low maintainance clarinets (schools
> mostly). Most of these were produced by more companies than you have fingers
> and toes to cash in on this market. Most of these companies spent more on
> advertising than on perfecting their product, so most were terrible sounding
> clunkers made worse by poor mouthpieces and inexperienced students playing
> them. There were some good sounding quality ones made, but the reputation
> was already hard set, and with the vast improvements in plastics during and
> just after the war, the better companies quit making them to save their
> reputations. Of the three I have restored, only one sounds decent.
>
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