Klarinet Archive - Posting 000583.txt from 2006/03

From: Gary Truesdail <gir@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Conductor batons
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:23:11 -0500

A few questions:

(1) I am curious about which baton (lengths, brand, number, weight
preference) many of you prefer.
(2) What do most players (non conductors) feel are the most important
attributes of a conductor during the development stage of a project.
(3) What do most players feel is the most important attribute of a
conductor during a performance.

I have an elderly friend, a retired super-teacher and co-owner of a
music camp operation, that has gotten into making custom batons for
friends and others he has judged as doing a good job. He uses various
woods for the handles and I have supplied him with some left-over gun
stock walnut with beautiful grain. He and I have been having difficulty
finding broken fishing rod tips or discarded fishing rod tip blanks from
manufacturers. We had found a full pallet of rod tips damaged in
shipment but it went to the dump a day before we were able to contact
them. Used fishing rods at flea markets are almost always warped.

The fun challenge is to not purchase those expensive rod blanks from
Cabelas and the like in order to keep the cost of a baton less than what
you would pay in the store.

(4) Do any of you have any ideas or contacts with people that could
help us, or ideas for alternatives to fishing rod tips?

GaryT

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