Klarinet Archive - Posting 000603.txt from 2004/07

From: "Warren Rosenberg" <wrosenberg47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Can you offer guidance on Amati purchase ... (newbie)
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:36:33 -0400

What a stupid, bummed out, condescending reply you have just made,
Professor.
I don't believe what I just read!
I've been reading every message for the last 3 months and I don't remember
ever seeing a note regarding the independence of materials and their sound
as you imply. So my question to you, Professor Acoustics, is why is
Grenadilla wood emphasized as THE WOOD for clarinets as opposed to plastic,
rubber, paper mache, and anything else which might be suitable for outdoor
use, rain, etc. Is it just a marketing ploy? So be it if it is. But I
resent your tone in your answer, and now we know why people just don't like
to get along. Perhaps you need to open your throat; enhance your
embouchure.
> Now if you had said, "A hard rubber clarinet does NOT sound like
> a wooden clarinet," that would be news.
What's news to me is how people who claim to be musicians, makers of music,
can have such foul dispositions. Now that's news!

----- Original Message -----
From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 5:27 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Can you offer guidance on Amati purchase ... (newbie)

> Sue, you appear to take special notice of the fact that your hard
> rubber clarinet "sounds very much like a wooden clarinet." Why
> should this surprise you? You could not have missed the almost
> continual discussion on this list about the sound of a clarinet
> being effectively indepenedent of the material from which it is
> made. What would you expect a hard rubber clarinet to sound
> like?
>
> Now if you had said, "A hard rubber clarinet does NOT sound like
> a wooden clarinet," that would be news.
>
> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue Raycraft [mailto:raycraft@-----.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:49 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Can you offer guidance on Amati purchase ...
> (newbie)
>
> I would like to recommend Tom Ridenour's hard rubber C clarinet.
> I purchased one last December direct from Tom and it is GREAT!
> The intonation is very good and it sounds VERY much like a wooden
> clarinet too. And the price is about half of a Noblet or
> Patricola.
>
> I used it last fall to play Strauss, plus I play at church it
> every week.
> It also makes a fairly decent substitute for oboe in community
> bands
> and such, where oboes are not always available.
>
> I love my C clarinet. :-)
>
> Sue
>
>
>
>
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