Klarinet Archive - Posting 000491.txt from 2005/06

From: ormo2ndtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] beginner's clarinet
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:51:29 -0400

Sarah Elbaz wrote:

> Would you like to play a plastic flute?

Sarah, you may be interested in looking at:

www.matitflutes.com

which is a fully keyed & expensive epoxy graphite flute (not a simple
system $200 "folk flute") (mine is plastic, by the way, joint & head and
all, and a local professor with DMA in Flute once played it and said
that its sound was excellent).

I have no way of evaluating the epoxy flute's sound, but I _am_ saying
that you shouldn't dismiss such an instrument simply because it's not
wood --- just as you should not dismiss a Greenline clarinet on the
basis that it's not a 'real' clarinet.

You may decide that non-wood designs are (or aren't) what you want for
yourself, just as you may (or may not) decide that a fabric ligature is
the best for your own use rather than metal; but certainly non-wood
instruments cannot be dismissed as "not real instruments."

In fact, at ClarinetFest in Tokyo this year, it has been said that there
will be a _ceramic_ clarinet offered for sale and in production. And
the barrel that I made from Delrin sounds just fine to me. Certainly
you cannot claim that it's not a 'real barrel'.

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