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Author: edk312001
Date: 2005-01-25 01:46
i just heard that a clarinet made up of glass is exist..is it true? anyone ever see it? if yes cn show me the picture if u have? thanx alot =)
edk312001@yahoo.com
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-01-25 02:26
There are some made of lucite (I BELIEVE it's lucite). In any event, they are completely clear, and still relatively light. An actual glass clarinet would be VERY heavy.
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-01-25 02:28
"Once upon a time" in one of the "great houses" [Rothchild's ?] in England, I saw a glass oboe displayed and marvled ! As I recall it had no keys, and prob. would be played similarly to a recorder's fingering "style". Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: msloss
Date: 2005-01-25 13:11
I saw an art glass sculpture by Dino Rosin at the Aronow Gallery in San Francisco that was a clarinet in abstract, interestingly with a full set of real keywork. Here is a link to another of his "clarinets", this time with what appears to be only one key.
http://www.plazagalleries.com/search/search.php?action=4&pid=221
As I recall of the one at Aronow, the price was somewhere between $6000 - $8000 when I inquired. It was quite beautiful, but I'll take the real thing for a third the price...
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Author: jim S.
Date: 2005-01-25 15:48
I have an Albert Alphin catalogue of a couple of years ago that lists a Buffet "clear plastic" B12 with gold keys. Apparently they are still making them.
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Author: kal
Date: 2005-01-25 18:23
I believe Altuglass is Plexiglas across the water.
For the reason Ken mentioned, I don't believe anyone has ever made any type of keyed woodwind in glass.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-01-25 19:30
Francois Kloc says that Buffet made only a single batch of clear plastic clarinets and had no plans to make any more. That's too bad, since they could probably sell a lot of them. They go for a big premium on eBay -- usually over $1,000 for a bottom of the line student model. If you look through the archives, there are many references, including one to a photo of Giora Feidman with an "all-clear" setup: a lucite clarinet, crystal mouthpiece, clear Luyben ligature and Legere reed. http://www.klezmer.de/D_Klezmer/D_Gruppen/D_Feidman/d_feidman.html
Ken Shaw
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Author: Dori
Date: 2005-01-25 23:50
If an instrument were actually made of glass, theoretically would you have to worry about playing too high a note and having it shatter itself?
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Author: Marnix van den Berg
Date: 2005-01-26 08:23
Not very likely, although it is possible to sing or play a note high enough that would shatter glass, it wouldn't have enough energy to actually do so. Maybe if you amplified it electronically.
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Author: LeWhite
Date: 2005-01-26 09:43
It would make an awesome trick to do on stage though! Shatter your own instrument with the final note! Although that's becoming a little too close to what some guitarists do. Maybe I'll just set my instrument on fire at the end of my next recital, keep it tame, ya know...
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