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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2005-02-21 23:47
Anybody heard of this one? A Chinese Brand called Ryton - plastic
A Tech (in Northern Virginia Area) who was refurbishing my R-13 showed me what he was selling (but not to me). Looked nice and shiny. $475 price tag, in the Forte range, I suppose.
He said he had worked on them without troubles, using screws, parts, etc that he got from the importer.
He played it a bit, but I am not experienced enough to say if it sounded good or not.
A CSO? Or the real thing?
JDS
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-02-21 23:55
> Anybody heard of this one? A Chinese Brand called Ryton - plastic
Sounds like a Grade A, true-blue CSO. Stay far away.
Take the $475, buy a Forté and 5 boxes of reeds..GBK
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Author: John Stackpole
Date: 2005-02-21 23:56
Perjorative term / abbreviation for "Clarinet Shaped Object". Not a good thing.
(Learned the abbreviation here in just the last month)
JDS
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-02-22 01:57
Ryton is a trademark for a family of Polyarylene Sulfide resins developed by Phillips Pet. Co. researchers [some good friends of mine], now Conoco-Phillips. These polymers have a number of unique physical properties including high temp. resistance, and I'm happy to hear of their use as cl bodies. The most common one is PPS, licensed to an Asian Co., and others, as the result of a patent infringement suit that I assisted in some 10-12 years ago. Lets hope that the finished instrument may become as good as "our" polymer. Attention please, Forte and Ridenour, et al. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: donald
Date: 2005-02-22 06:38
it's not inconceivable that a Chinese company could (maybe does?) produce a high quality instrument. There are technicians, designers and performers in that country with the expertise required (this is a fact, not an opinion). when this instrument becomes available in the US it will no doubt be cheaper than anything else.....
whether this particular clarinet is a quality product is another matter altogether, one that can only be judged by someone familiar with the instrument, not though speculation.
donald
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