Klarinet Archive - Posting 000281.txt from 2009/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Composite Clarinets
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:09:39 -0500

Bill,
I love my Greenline R13. The differences between it and the wooden
R13 it replaced are:
1. It is a little heavier, as the composite material is denser. So
watch out the thumb. I had to move the thumb rest to compensate.
2. Its sound is a little more 'focused' - it seems to play just as
loud as my old wooden one did, but it is harder to get shrill on it
(always a good thing!). I attribute this to, again, the denser material.
Other than that, it tunes and responds just like a wooden R13, and it
may as well be a wooden one, as far as the tone is concerned. I put
Straubinger pads on it, which are also unaffected by the weather. You
could, I'm sure, put any non-bladder pad on it and get the same
results as if you were using your wooden horn.

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
~Doug Floyd

On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Bill Foss wrote:

> I need to procure a composite clarinet for a large number of
> outdoor gigs over the next 18 months. I currently play a 1960's
> R-13 with a Cicero Kaspar mouthpiece.
>
> My 3 largest concerns are:
>
> 1 - quality construction/intonation
> 2 - availability
> 3 - price (I am NOT one of those wealthy clarinetists)
>
> Suggestions on where I should be looking (Yamaha, Leblanc, etc) ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bill Foss
> U.S. Army Retired
> USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
> Director of Bands, Aiken Prep
>
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