Klarinet Archive - Posting 000813.txt from 2004/01

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Kaspar mpc
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:30:40 -0500

Unless it's variation on the Vito VSP clarinets, where a composition bell
and barrel were options at one time.

Don Hatfield

> >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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