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Author: JellyJazz
Date: 2003-06-22 10:09
Has anyone seen these before? I think they look quite good but what does everyine else think?
Jelly Jazz
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-06-22 13:03
In my opinion, as tacky as a polka-dot motor vehicle. A marketing gimmick that hopefully has already died.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2003-06-22 14:50
Buffet Crampon were showing colored Greenlines at the Musicora exhibition a couple of years ago. I never saw any in the stores, though.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-06-23 00:02
According to my local music wholesaler they are just not popular here and they've not sold them. I understand they work as good as their "black" cousins of the same price range
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Author: ron b
Date: 2003-06-23 06:03
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. As a stand-alone instrument, I think they're yucky.
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Author: diz
Date: 2003-06-23 06:38
ron, I do agree with you - they're pretty awful
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Author: Dawne
Date: 2003-06-23 08:09
I toyed with the idea of buying a bright red one to match my car and hanging it on a gun rack in my back window just for fun...but I decided they weren't even worth using as a decoration....LOL
Dawne Morgan
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Author: SaRaH18
Date: 2003-06-23 16:01
I have seen an orange, yellow and red clarinet.
I think Black is the most common clarinet we find these days.
Sarah
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-06-23 16:38
Maybe I'm too old to see the point? WHY??On second thought, maybe
a bright RED Bass would improve my tone? NOT!
Bob A
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-06-23 17:53
The pluses:
1. You will definitely be noticed.
The minuses:
1. Most are just Taiwanese or Indian "musical shaped objects".
2. Replacement parts? virtually non existant
3. The tuning? inconsistant
4. Workmanship? mediocre to poor
5. Quality of materials used? soft metal and cheap plastic
6. Many techs absolutely refuse to work on these instruments.
7. The repair cost (bench rate/materials x $/hour) make these instruments disposable.
8. You will definitely be noticed.
...GBK
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-06-23 22:12
Anyone who seriously can't wait to be the only player of a brilliant yellow instrument in a sea of black ones should be careful not to allow æsthetic considerations to triumph over practical ones.
However, for the person who can't go on in life without a colored plastic clarinet, yet still wants one not likely to fall apart too quickly, look at a Vito. Vito offers such instruments that have the same quality and playability as their black sticks.
The worst imaginable scenario, of course, is the High School student who has bought a "beautiful" yellow Clarinet, only to find he/she is moving to a new school whose arch-rival school's colors are -- oops -- Yellow and Silver. Nasty break.
Regards,
John
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-07-07 16:18
I thought I had seen EVERYTHING, but the front clarinet row of the Boston Pops were playing a Red, White, and Blue clarinet on their 4th of July TV Spectacular. How 'bout that! Did anybody else notice that or had I had too much celebratory substances?
Bob A
Post Edited (2003-07-07 16:20)
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Author: big fat lyre112
Date: 2003-07-07 17:23
I have a colored mouthpiece...it is a Vandoren 5RV Lyre and its the 2 tone kind. It is black w/darker red swirls. It plays exactly the same as a black one but mine is kooler. It adds "excitement" ((if you will)) to the clari and its not tacky like the total color claris. Besides, you only see it when I'm not playing cus my mouth is over it the whole time...I like it and I'll keep ordering the 2 tones for a loooong time.
Post Edited (2003-07-07 17:24)
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Author: cloutist4
Date: 2003-07-07 17:36
the only colored clarients worth buying arent even colored at all!!! they are clear!!! i saw one in the Georgia marching band and wished that mine was liek that!
shiney, like bigfatlyre112
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2003-07-07 17:45
Bob A --
I don't know if you had too much in the way of celebratory substances (Mom's apple pie?), but I, too, noticed the three colored clarinets (most likely Vito's?). A cute touch; I wonder whether the conductor noticed?
Todd W.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2003-07-07 17:51
Bob A ... Yes, it looked as if the Pops clarinetists were playing Vito Dazzlers, in seating order: red, white and blue.
They also seemed to be playing the stock plastic colored mouthpieces that came with clarinet.
Perhaps the mouthpieces were refaced - then again, perhaps not ...GBK
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2003-07-07 19:04
Let's keep racial issues off the BB, shall we?
(yes, I'm kidding)
p.s. I regularly play an old 1920's-vintage H.N. White "American Standard" tenor sax which I had spray-painted black more than a year ago (it's a long story........). So if you really must have a colored clarinet, I recommend Krylon or Rust-Oleum.............
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2003-07-07 22:19
Dave, To match your black shoes, black-tie and Dinner-Jacket?
Bob A
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2003-07-09 05:58
It is all about speed. If you have a red clarinet you will play faster than everybody else. Just like sports cars, everybody knows the red one goes faster.
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Author: Susan
Date: 2003-07-09 12:10
Was anybody at Clarinet Fest when it was in Ohio a few years back? When we played at the outdoor concert there was this guy with a paisley clarinet. He'd painted it himself - says he just took off the keys and sanded the plastic a little so the paint would adhere better. I think he used model paints. It was pretty wild!
On a related note, one of my students regularly paints stock ligatures with colored nail polish (preferably with glitter) as gifts for her friends.
I, too, caught the colored clarinets on the Boston Pops program, and also wondered about the mouthpieces. This was obviously done for TV (or just for fun!), since nobody at the concert would have had a very good view of them.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2003-07-09 14:25
According to the Insurance Institute of America, you are also more likely to be involved in an automobile accident, whilst playing a red clarinet.
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Author: Henry
Date: 2003-07-09 15:51
On the other hand, I wouldn't recommend driving whilst playing a black one either!
Henry
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Author: Tom A
Date: 2003-07-10 00:11
Hi, Mark Pinner. If I wear my cap on my head backwards, and grow a goatee beard, will I play faster and louder?
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Author: VermontJM
Date: 2003-07-10 14:59
Buffet made a clarinet (b-12 or b-10?) that used to be clear with copper keys. I actually thought this was relatively cool and a girl in our band had one. (Yes, it turned some heads.) The best thing is watching the spit (I don't buy into this 'condensation' bit) roll down the bore. 
~Jo
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-07-10 15:38
Spit doesn't roll very well. Too viscous.
Perhaps you'll reconsider the condensation bit?
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-07-11 05:03
It probably depends on whether they are in love too, and some other rather gruesome yuck factors.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2003-07-11 13:56
Great for marching bands during football half-time when no-one pays any attention to the music
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The "rollocity" of spit depends on the person and what they may have eaten prior to playing... I think this condensation bit to be a farce, much like.....hmmm.... centrifugal force. 