Klarinet Archive - Posting 000641.txt from 2002/11

From: Deidre Calarco <dleigh@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] GreenLine clarinets
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:57:49 -0500

On 11/14/02 3:54 PM, "Dee D. Flint" <deehays@-----.net> wrote:

> Might want to be a little bit more careful to make sure that we know which
> Dee you are talking to. Many list members might have taken it to be me
> since I have been around longer. Personally I am in the "material makes no
> difference camp."

Hum...I'm not really in either camp. I don't know if it makes a difference
or not. You're the experts on that. I just brought it up as a possibility,
based on my knowledge of materials (which is related to engineering, not to
instrument design). But, although I could believe that engineered wood
sounds just as good as or better than natural wood, I'd be surprised if the
same were true of plastic. Or, maybe the plastic clarinets I've heard have
just been poor-quality instruments?

Are there people who think that material (wood vs. plastic vs. metal)
doesn't make any difference at all? I've got an old metal clarinet that was
given to me by my grandfather, and boy does it ever have a bright sound -
almost like a soprano sax!

Hope nobody objects to the use of "bright" :-)

-Dee C.

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