Klarinet Archive - Posting 000811.txt from 2004/01

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Kaspar mpc
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:09:20 -0500

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:33:33 EST, EClarinet@-----.com wrote:

>Hi, guys!
>
>One of my students showed up today with a Kaspar mpc with a 14 on the side.
>It was with a Normany clarinet, which had wooden upper and lower joints, but
>plastic barrel and bell. (The kid's parents had been told that this was a pro
>horn, an "R 13" that they got in trade for some service they provided....that's
>another story....)
>
>

The Normandy ships with a wooden bell. If this one is plastic, then
some disaster must have befallen the first. It is, of course, not a pro
horn; it is an entry-level clarinet, probably the least expensive wood
clarinet you can buy. Not bad, but not an R13. I have a Normandy, but
I prefer my plastic Vito.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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