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Author: Dano
Date: 2005-01-24 20:30
I ran across a redwood clarinet for sale and had never seen or heard of redwood clarinets. Has anyone heard of redwood being used to make clarinets? If so what might be the drawbacks, (other than the destruction of more redwood trees). Can redwood withstand the same rigors that grenadilla can? Or maybe it is just a "pretty clarinet" that has no more value than a plastic clarinet?
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Author: diz
Date: 2005-01-24 20:35
I thought there was a "non-grenadilla / ebony" style Leblanc clarinet though if it were redwood? - can't remember.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-01-24 20:52
Is it rosewood, rather than redwood? Are you judging by color alone? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: susieray
Date: 2005-01-24 20:57
Redwood is TOO SOFT to make woodwind instruments with....you must mean rosewood.
Sue
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Author: kal
Date: 2005-01-24 21:43
$10 says it's a PanAm propeller wood horn, especially if the seller is ignorant enough to refer to it as "redwood".
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Author: Dano
Date: 2005-01-24 21:57
I also questioned if they meant rosewood instead of redwood. I live in No. Ca. and redwood trees are right in my back yard so I know that this wood does not seem to be hard enough to be drilling small holes into. The photo of it looks like rosewood but the guy selling it insists that it is redwood. Says that is what makes it's tone so much fuller than grenadilla but I am not sure if he knows what he is talking about. I thought maybe I had missed something and someone would know exactly what he is talking about when he insists it is redwood. Sometimes you think you know a fair amount about something and here comes someone with a redwood clarinet!
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Author: Joel Clifton
Date: 2005-01-25 00:43
Oops, I must've done a double-tap.
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"You have to play just right to make dissonant music sound wrong in the right way"
Post Edited (2005-01-25 00:44)
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-01-25 01:11
TKS, Joel, beautiful showing of Particola's "colors". Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Dano
Date: 2005-01-25 01:24
Joel, Very similar to the Patricola clarinet except this "red" was not as even looking as the Patricola. The guy selling it says it has two barrels, "metal tenon rings" and silver plated keys. Not being able to see it except for a bad photo, makes me pass on it, but hearing about a "redwood" clarinet does make me ask questions.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-25 15:30
Leblanc made the Symphonie VII "Rosewood" clarinet a few years ago. I owned one for a short time. They were very expensive and not too successful for Leblanc.
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Author: avincel
Date: 2005-01-25 20:07
There is a redwood clarinet on e-bay. It is new and the make is "Venus", the same manufacturer of the plastic clarinets of many colors. I'm afraid that it is just a gussied up CSO, although it is quite attractive.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-26 16:30
My advise would be to skip it. You'll be money ahead. Just because it's pretty doesn't mean it would be a good investment. Try to stay away from off-brand instruments like "Venus."
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-01-26 16:56
Brenda Siewert wrote:
> Try to stay away from off-brand instruments like "Venus."
Clarinet purchasing Rule #23:
Never buy a clarinet named after a bird or a planet ...GBK
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-26 18:34
Excellent rule, GBK...especially the bird one. Imagine--Pigeon clarinets. More mess per minute than any other brand. To be played outdoors only. Or, Buzzard clarinets--to be used after unsuccessful auditions. Or, perhaps Canary clarinets--in a lovely shade of yellow and fantastic on those high trills. Or, for the more practical artist, the Sparrow--plain but useful.
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Author: susieray
Date: 2005-01-26 20:55
Hey, for all you doublers out there, the seller of the "Redwood" clarinet also has green piccolos available ![[right]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie8.gif)
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Author: Todd W.
Date: 2005-01-27 19:07
Rule #24: Avoid buying clarinets with a name that begins with 'C' and that rhymes with the composer of K622.
Even if they are "the most popular clarinet sold on the USA market today!!!!!" (It says so on our favorite auction site, so it must be true.)
Their popularity must be due to the clarinet being made of "hand selected composition ebonite." Wow!
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Author: emzilee
Date: 2005-01-28 22:08
"Hey, for all you doublers out there, the seller of the "Redwood" clarinet also has green piccolos available "
Oi! I nearly bought one of those... but the pink... just to play with though!
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