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Author: Nick
Date: 2003-01-07 22:12
I've sent my clarinet in for repair due to many cracks, leaks, and joint problems. They gave me a loaner instrument--a plastic vito!
I was actually really excited to try it out, and I'm pleasantly surprised by the way it sounds. I don't know why I always thought so, but it is a really decent instrument. The sound of the metal keys clacking against the hard plastic body is sort of annoying, though :-)
It also plays a lot easier than the clarinet I normally play, a wooden Yahama. Does anyone know if this easier playability of the vito is due to it being plastic, or because of my Yamaha's problems?
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Author: Dee
Date: 2003-01-07 22:27
Probably because of your Yamaha's problems.
The keys really should not clack against the plastic. There's probably some little corks missing.
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2003-01-07 23:35
I tried a plastic Vito out one day and I really enjoyed it. I think it was kind of a lavender color. This would be good if you needed to do some playing outdoors. My student bought one for himself when he went to Mexico so the weather wouldn't hurt it. He stays somewhere by the ocean.
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Author: Benni
Date: 2003-01-07 23:48
The Vito probably has a larger bore than your Yamaha, too, and maybe that's what you like about it. (Or your Yamaha's problems have just made you happy to play a working clarinet again!)
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Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2003-01-11 15:22
The only clarinet I've ever owned, for about 7 years, is a plastic Vito. I love that clarinet. It works great, sounds great, etc. I recently played for a clarinet professor here at Miami University, and she was impressed that I could get that sound out of that clarinet. Of course, the Premiere mouthpiece doesn't hurt either.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-01-12 02:10
I have just serviced yet another Vito 7212 calrinet wit synthetic, ('Valentino'?), self adhesive cofrks sliding off the keys to leave a sticky mess. Total replacement is not a particularly cheap option, but cheaper than attending to the issue in a piecemeal fashion.
For this, and quite a few other reasons, I much prefer a plastic Yamaha clarinet.
There are those who calim that Vito is the same as Yamhaha for student instruments, but I find the differences to be considerable and significant. Perhaps the Yamahas I see, form Japan, are different from those in America.
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