Klarinet Archive - Posting 000561.txt from 2000/08

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:30:20 -0400

On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 15:19:31 -0400, charette@-----.org said:

> From: "Tony Pay" <Tony@-----.uk>
>
> > On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:48:32 -0700 (PDT), Bilwright@-----.net said:
> >
> > > A detail that seldom gets mentioned during these discussions is
> > > "forgiveness" -- by which I mean that YCL-20 (and other student
> > > horns, I assume) allow you to make slight errors and still produce
> > > a note.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > It took me several weeks to understand that, all along, I have
> > > been covering some holes in some fingerings only 98% or 99%. My
> > > student horn lets me get away with it, but the pro horn does not.
> >
> > I don't think this is true, in general, your personal experience to
> > the contrary. Or, at least, I've never encountered it.
> >
> > Has anyone else?
>
> There's been plenty of anecdotal evidence of this presented on the
> Clarinet Bulletin Board I run on Sneezy
> (http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/).

I looked it up, and found one post saying much the same thing as Bill --
there may be others.

The reason I ask is because I was advised when young, and sometimes
nowadays also give the advice, that it's quite worthwhile (if you can
afford it) to buy a high quality secondhand instrument to begin with.

The reasoning is that if you want to sell it after a bit, you'll get
about what you paid for it. And it will be a good beginning.

This is the first I've heard about student instruments being
'forgiving'. The explanation of Bill's experience could be that he
found it difficult to switch to another instrument he wasn't used to.

Are there technical details of what allows you to cover the holes 98% or
99% on a student instrument and still get the notes? It seems unlikely
to me, but perhaps it's rather that the holes are smaller, which I
*would* understand.

(By the way, I also found a post saying that I think that
polycylindrical clarinets have generically bad tone quality.
Interesting.)

Tony

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