Klarinet Archive - Posting 000639.txt from 2003/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Materials
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:11:30 -0500

At 05:25 PM 2/21/2003 -0500, David Blumberg wrote:
>Leblanc made a "copy" of their Opus bore and undercutting on a Plastic
>Clarinet (Millennium) and the Clarinet played like a Plastic piece of crap.
>It was the one playing it.
>
>There was no magic in the bore and undercutting - it was plastic and played
>like a plastic Clarinet. Sure the Scientists say otherwise, but tell that to
>the players. Go ahead, get your shorts in a bind, but that's what I believe
>from my playing experience - both with students and myself at a high level.
>
>Materials DO make a difference and it isn't from what I've been told
>ither - as I'm being told that it doesn't.

Did the clarinet you were playing also have the Opus keywork, or was it
standard Vito/Noblet? And is your report of how it played your own opinion
of how it seemed when you played it or that of a panel of listeners? Or
did you listen to a recording of your playing?

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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