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Author: Scott
Date: 2005-06-12 13:26
Does anyone know where I can find an inexpensive A Clarinet?
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Scott Beard
Celebration Orchestra
Post Edited (2005-06-14 03:44)
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Author: Ed
Date: 2005-06-12 13:34
I have heard good things about Tom Ridenour's line of clarinets:
http://www.ridenourclarinetproducts.com/clarinets.htm
He designs great products and is always thoughtful in his approach to things. I would thing they would warrant a look at the very least.
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Author: Bob A
Date: 2005-06-12 17:11
"One man's junk is another man's treasure." Please define inexpensive.
Bob A
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2005-06-12 17:40
I just checked out the Ridenauer site. The "Arioso" looks interesting. I did a quick search and saw some positive comments on the "C" model....anyone have direct experience with the "A" clarinet ?
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Author: Scott
Date: 2005-06-12 18:49
Well, I'd like to find something for under $500. What's the difference in the A clarinet? Is it only the barrel length? Is it possible to adjust a b flt clarinet into an A?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-06-12 19:09
Scott wrote:
> Is it possible to adjust a b flt clarinet into an A?
No. You'd just have a very out of tune "A clarinet" that you wouldn't want to play in public ...GBK
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Author: crnichols
Date: 2005-06-12 20:55
> Is it possible to adjust a b flt clarinet into an A?
Well, some instrument manufacturers used to try... I remember seeing a metal clarinet some years ago, that you unscrewed the barrel to make the instrument longer, and there was a mechanism inside that moved all the tone holes around. It was an interesting idea, but not terribly effective. As GBK said, you wouldn't want to play it in public...
Christopher Nichols
1st Infantry Division Band
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2005-06-13 15:08
My grandfather used this approach back in the 1920's, with a special string with a wire spider to hold it in place from the barrel socket. It was not a homemade device, but something that he purchased from good old Hunleth Music in Saint Louis back in the day. (He didn't normally keep a A horn as he did mostly theater work, but occasionally would want to play something on "the A horn" as it got rid of some accidentals on his Albert system instrument.)
I've tried this trick, and found that a piece of think twine worked best. But, it "felt funny" when playing, and intonation varied all over the block when I tried it. I asked one of the old coots at Hunleth (back before they closed) if they still carried the string and spider arrangement, but was told that he had never seen one (and he had to be in his seventies back in the 1970's).
With modern expectations, you would just do better to transpose the part on a Bb horn. You'll only use the low Eb pitch (figured as on the Bb horn) once in a blue moon anyway, and the tone and articulation will be far better than you'll get with "the string".
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
info@sotsdo.com
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Author: GoatTnder
Date: 2005-06-13 17:08
For those of us wanting to screw around with this string idea... wha?! Just put the string in? Or pull the barrel out too, or what?
Andres Cabrera
South Bay Wind Ensemble
www.SouthBayWinds.com
sbwe@sbmusic.org
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