Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2000/08

From: "Joe M. Rankin" <jmrankin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:21:02 -0400

Actually, Howarth does. I forget what they call the material on their web
site, but it's plastic. I bought a Howarth Bb about 4 years ago & liked it so
much that I vacationed in London. I spend days there playing all the A
clarinets in stock & selected one to complete the pair. They did not have any
of the plastic ones in stock, so I can't comment on them. However, a friend
played on at their shop & was impressed with it as I recall.

BTW, my Howarths are wonderful instruments. I just got a pair of Rossi
clarinets, but I can't bring myself to sell the Howarths because they play so
well.

Joe Rankin

Neil Leupold wrote:

> --- Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > In fact, my own observation suggests that their plastic clarinets are
> > generally just that -- identical versions of their wood horns, but
> > molded in plastic intead.
>
> Oh really. Identical? If that were the case, many professional
> players would have switched to plastic instruments decades ago.
> The only plastic clarinet on the market which can make the claim
> of being acoustically comparable to one of its wooden professional
> counterparts is the Buffet R-13 Greenline. Beyond that, no man-
> ufacturer materially (i.e.; to a relevant degree) mimics the a-
> coustical properties of its proline models in its plastic clari-
> nets. But perhaps you were referring to beginner and intermedi-
> ate model wooden horns.
>
> Neil
>
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