Klarinet Archive - Posting 000596.txt from 2000/08

From: "Joe M. Rankin" <jmrankin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] taking up the clarinet again
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:33:34 -0400

Stewart,

I'm really enjoying the Rossi's. They are both very even & have a wonderful
sound. I especially like the Bb. Both clarinets play so much easier than my
Buffet's or Howarth's. It just seems to take less effort to play them. I don't
know how else to describe it.

I am using a Greg Smith mouthpiece with them. I didn't know that Luis made
mouthpieces. Tell me about it. What blank & opening is it?

My instruments are the American bore made of Rosewood. I also have the L.H.
Ab/Eb keys & the Rossi Bb mechanism. Jimmy Sclater had gotten a pair of them in
April & after playing them, I had to have a set.

What bore & wood did you choose?

Joe Rankin

stewart kiritz wrote:

> 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>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 7:21 AM
> 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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