Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 2004/02

From: "Don" <DWH46@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Costco Clarinets!!!
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:06:41 -0500

Vito did make the Dazzlers, a line of colored clarinets. LA Sax I think
introduced the first line of colored-lacquer saxophones and then other brass
instruments. And both Leblanc and UMI (King, Conn, etc.) tried
colored-lacquer brass instruments in the early nineties. Some of the
descriptions of the technicolor stuff you find on Ebay borders on hilarious
and ridiculous. It's just a matter of time until metal clarinets are back in
style (with myu tongue in cheek) in colors.

Don Hatfield

> I don't know about the one you saw, but weren't those Technicolor
> instruments first marketed a few years ago by one of the major companies?
> Off the top of my head, I think I remember it was Leblanc (Vito), but I
> could easily be wrong about the specific company. So, maybe it isn't good
to
> judge a clarinet by its color.
>
> Karl Krelove

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