Klarinet Archive - Posting 000533.txt from 2005/06

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] metal clarinets
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:14:55 -0400

And consider the case of the "one-piece" student bass clarinet.

Anyone who has ever had to carry one of these cases around (as a student or
otherwise) learns real quickly why being able to take the two middle joints
apart is a ReallyGoodThing<tm>. The solution to dealing with such bass
clarinet cases, as I expect the solution would be if a student were given a
one piece clarinet case, is as easy as never taking the instrument home,
unfortunately.

Yeah, I know, kids who play soprano saxophone don't have this problem.
Except that, mercifully for *so* many reasons, the average middle school
and even early high school student doesn't have to carry a soprano sax on
the school bus. That and saxophones are "cool" <sigh>.

-Adam

At 10:54 AM 6/26/2005, Karl Krelove wrote:
>There's also a very practical reason from the sales side of the process -
>many (not all) kids at least in American public school systems are
>interested in trying a new instrument in inverse proportion to the size of
>the instrument. The first criterion a 9 or 10 year old child applies is
>"What did my parents say I should play?" (Usually, there's one of those
>packed away at home or at a relative's home already). The second is "How
>hard is it to carry to school?" The bigger the case, the harder the
>instrument *looks* to carry to and from school once or twice a week. A
>standard student-level clarinet case is much smaller *looking* than the
>long case that must house a one-piece instrument.

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