Klarinet Archive - Posting 000594.txt from 2000/08

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 12:37:42 -0400

Joe, how do you like your Rossi's? I also just acquired a set and love
them. They seem to play best with the mouthpiece he made for them.

Stewart Kiritz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe M. Rankin" <jmrankin@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again

> 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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> >
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