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Author: Iacuras
Date: 2006-03-28 04:36
Well, I was just browsing thru that namless site, and found something quite interesting. Blue and Green Clarinets. Now I know that these are CSO's but I was wondering if they actually think people will buy these.
Steve
"If a pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon."
"If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly."
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2006-03-28 04:54
Must be a slow day. They make them in at least a half dozen colors.
Check recent feedback... apparently people are buying :/
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-03-28 04:55
Excerpted from GBK's 50 Clarinet Purchasing Rules
Clarinet purchasing Rule #23 -
Never buy a clarinet named after a bird or a planet.
Clarinet purchasing Rule #24 -
Never buy a clarinet made in one of the primary or secondary colors.
Clarinet purchasing Rule #25 -
Never buy a clarinet whose name reveals an ominous anagram:
clarinet by Bestler = Lyric treble? Absent
Venus clarinet = cavern utensil
...GBK
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Author: Kchui999
Date: 2006-03-28 06:08
I was really tempted to buy the purple one with the gold keys just becuase it looked wayy cool. Students who are just starting off need that extra color to motivate them to practice. I would have practiced much more in 4th grade if i had a blue clarinet. o.O
Speaking of off brand clarinets, eBay lists a few of them that claim to be made of rosewood. They go for around $200; of course not a Rossi or Patricola, but its wood. Anyone have any experience with those?
~Chui
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2006-03-28 08:22
-- "I was really tempted to buy the purple one with the gold keys just becuase it looked wayy cool." --
Don't forget to use it with a gold-plated Bonade ligature!
The red ones sound great with a BG Revelation, but for best tone and projection, you can't beat the yellow Venus models with a silver Luyben lig and Vandoren V12.
Steve
PS Does anyone know if Greg Smith supplies small cans of yellow paint for his Cocobolo chedeville mouthpieces?
;-)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-03-28 12:04
>>Students who are just starting off need that extra color to motivate them to practice. I would have practiced much more in 4th grade if i had a blue clarinet. o.O
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Times change, but when I was nine years old, that extra color would have motivated me to crawl away and die of embarrassment.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
Post Edited (2006-03-29 17:08)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2006-03-28 12:24
Do not forget...they are "educator approved"
And...they match the marching band uniform and school colors.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-03-28 15:29
One of the local high school players has a greenie. At the band recitals, she was frantically having the band director bend her pinky keys (with his fingers). I did note that she pulled it apart at the center joint and put it on the floor (with no reed cap) under her chair when she was off stage.
Bob Phillips
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Author: marcia
Date: 2006-03-28 16:03
I have heard that a reputable music store would take a red and a green clarinet, swap pieces, and display two red/green clarinets at Christmas.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2006-03-28 18:41
Leblanc used to sell those Vito Dazzlers that came in assorted colors. They're probably better than the CSOs, but not much. Buffet made a clear plastic B12 a few years back. I find that disgusting. However, Giora Feidman played one (the Buffet clear) on one of his CDs, so go figure.
You can see it on his website:
http://www.giorafeidman.de/index.html
The CSOs are so bad you really shouldn't waste ANY money whatsoever on them.
Post Edited (2006-03-28 18:43)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-03-28 18:52
> Vito Dazzlers (...) are probably better than the CSOs, but not much
Weren't the Dazzlers non-black variants of the black Resotones? A music store nearby has one in the window and it looks just like my 7212. (except from the colour, of course)
--
Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-03-30 12:45
I tried one of the garish green JinYin ones last week (it belongs to a trombone player who got it as a present as she passed her grade 7 guitar) - it made a clarinet-like sound but that's the only similarity I could find between my exquisitely made Series 9 and this plastic thing. The barrel was very short (less than 66mm by a mile - and 66mm is the shortest a barrel should be in my opinion) so anyone learning on one of these won't develop their embouchure, and when they do get a better clarinet they'll have tuning problems.
So any talk of being 'educator approved' is absolute cack. The problems showed up immediately on assembly - the long Bb link was out of adjustment and bent back too easily, the keywork was of very thin gauge and soft metal, the toneholes were cut very deep, the tenons rocked, the thumbrest was loose... I didn't even look at the mouthpiece - what's the point? However, the only redeeming feature was it's weight (or lack of it), but like any clarinet I try I could make it sound as good as my Selmers, though this is no reason for me to endorse them at all - which is definitely not my intention.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2006-03-30 12:45)
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Author: corks&pads
Date: 2006-03-30 13:40
So any talk of being 'educator approved' is absolute cack.
Not if what they are teaching marketing...at Tsinghua!
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Author: Kchui999
Date: 2006-03-31 04:03
"...it made a clarinet-like sound but that's the only similarity I could find between my exquisitely made Series 9 and this plastic thing."
How dare you even try to compare plastic junk to a series 9.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-03-31 12:03
That was the ONLY similarity (ie. it was similar, but definitely not the same). And that was really pushing it.
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