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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-12-29 19:00
[L. Omar Henderson]
> The vintage "smell"
You're bringing up an interesting topic.
When you open a (for the sake of example) clarinet case, one of your first impression is the smell. You may know that the "new car scent" is a custom designed perfume whose sole task is to invoke emotions like "whoa! I rented a brand new car!". I still remember the slightly bittery smell and taste of my first recorder when I was about ten; still reminds me of rainy Sunday afternoons with menuets, gavottes and other "boring medieval adult" music.
I bought a clarinet via an Online Auction Site Whose Name I Forgot and it contained a jar of <bleep> cork grease which simply smelled rancid (dunno if this is the default scent of it). Took me quite a while to air the case and replace the stench with the fine orangey scent of my familiar grease.
What does the scent in your [instrument] case remind you of?
--
Ben
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Author: ron b
Date: 2005-12-29 19:26
You really don't want/need to know.
...well, okay, just because it's you, Ben.
My favorite case, one among many I might add, smells sorta like a [clean] horse stable. I mean it  Really, it smells faintly like straw. Not a bad smell, not a funky smell -- kinda neutral... like straw. I have no idea or clue how it got that way. It's scuffed and scratched but no terribly bad environments. My Grandma bought it for me way back in the 'fifties, for whatever now-forgotten reason.
No, I've haven't been playing at the barn dances lately
- ron b -
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2005-12-29 21:12
The old Selmer single case that came with my Series 9 full Boehm A has the lid cushion stuffed with shredded wood - not sawdust, but fine strips of wood - probably the same kind of stuffing used in Steiff teddy bears as opposed to the highly flammable foam chips were later used in stuffed toys and cheap furniture (before there were fire regulations), as well as in cars to this very day.
But my old Centered Tones still have their old smell from their original case deep in the wood - I could smell it better when I bushed the toneholes back in 2001, and it's a nice old smell, not a skanky smell like some old school instruments, especially the old Corton (Amati) or Lark clarinets which were pretty rank.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2005-12-29 21:57
My Yamaha double case (that I use for my Series 9 set) doesn't smell of anything out of the ordinary as it's pretty new, but my new tenor's case smells like a freshly painted room.
Not sure what colour - probably Magnolia.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2005-12-29 22:34
I don't think my case smells, but I have always loved what I call "Clarinet smell." At least, that is WOOD clarinets...my first one I owned is a Selmer Signet and I remember as a kid just leaning it on my face during a long rest and thinking, "Wow, I love the smell of this!"
My R13s have the same kind of aroma. Not sure if it's the grenadilla or whatever they stain it with, but I really really like it!
Katrina
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Author: carrielj
Date: 2005-12-30 01:36
I got a clarinet on ebay and the case smells sweet, like a mans dress shirt after he worked in an office with a pipe smoker. I can't pin it exactily, but it reminds me of being a kid and giving my dad a hug when he came home from work. The clarinet lives beside my computer so I can smell it whenever I wish.
Carrie
Post Edited (2005-12-30 01:38)
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Author: Chalumeau Joe
Date: 2005-12-30 01:57
I'm with Katrina...love that clarinet smell (gotta be the grenadilla). It's a warm, woody smell...completely unlike the foul smells that emanted from my high school band room -- brass and rancid saliva. Yargh!
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