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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-07-11 05:20
Nice! I like experimenting with angles and such! I think I'm going to do some more photography tomorrow!
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-07-11 05:39
Good photograpy - I wish I were as proficient.
One point though. I wouldn't have scattered a box of reeds over the keyboard in the last shot.
Artistic license you will say though - and quite rightly too!
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-07-11 05:53
Interesting about the reeds. I actually like how the reeds aren't the focus and it's more of the clarinet. It also shows how frustrating reeds can be and how they are kind of haphazardly put on the piano. But, you're entitled to your opinion and thanks for letting me know! Eh, and I did those clarinet shots all in about 5 minutes. I was just anxious to try a few shots out! I think I'll be taking some more after I go to bed!
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-07-11 06:36
''It also shows how frustrating reeds can be and how they are kind of haphazardly put on the piano.''
Good point you make - how about a scattering of broken reeds then.........?
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-07-11 06:57
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Here are a few pictures. Flute player liked how the snale looked a little like the end of the contrabass so decided to take that photo.
Post Edited (2006-07-11 13:01)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-07-11 07:35
...you might also want to put a picture of yourselves into your profiles... ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif)
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Ben
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Author: Anthony Spencer
Date: 2006-07-11 10:09
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Sorry folks. I am trying to send a pic of my clarinets and thought I knew how to attach to mail out. I guess I should stick to playing the clarinet. Could someone help me.
Tony
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Author: Anthony Spencer
Date: 2006-07-11 10:16
Hooray
As dumb as I am , I have worked it out. Anyway, my pride and joy are my clarinets. Two of them shown in the previous attachemnt. The Boxwood wood instrument was made by Wood & Ivy in Soho, London around 1835 and still plays beautifully and the other is my Bb Symphony 1010 made in London around 1980.
Not particularly artistic, but thought they were of interest and I built the Harp.
Tony
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Author: FDF
Date: 2006-07-11 12:24
I recently took a few pictures of my clarinet, not nearly as artistic as any of the above. Now I'm motivated to do something more creative, but here is my woodwind on wood photo. (I hope:)
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-07-11 14:31
Low_Reed wrote:
> Here's my
> bass
> clarinet Rogue's Gallery.
>
> Now, if I could just stop admiring my BC and play the darn
> thing!
There's not much to admire - all I see is vertical bars (in Firefox); IE, however, does fine. (looking at the source, I'm not really surprised)
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Ben
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Author: Super Mario
Date: 2006-07-11 18:34
hey clarinet girl.. is that the poulenc sonata in the backround of the last few shots?
great photos, btw
We are the music, while the music lasts.
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-07-11 19:18
Nice pictures everyone! Clarnibass-I do like the snail actually! It made me smile!
Super Mario-yes it's the Poulenc. I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell. I was merely going for music in the background and that was the first piece of music I could snatch up!
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2006-07-11 22:08
Dear Nancy,
Thank you sooooooooo much for posting this photo and link to your site. The only thing that gets me to forget how little I practiced in a day is a beautiful, well made pen.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-07-12 00:09
Nice pen, Nancy! I wish I was good with wood, but I'm not! And, I see the Concertino! Have you thought of doing this photo in Sepia mode to make the music look more like the pen? Just a thought...
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-07-12 01:02
Nice photos Nancy! The angles/perspectives are neat! Man, that peg is really great!
I've added some more photos at the same link as before, but for convenience here's the link again:
http://umkc.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2013872&l=20701&id=66806072
Any comments, suggestions are most welcome. I'm just starting photography as a hobbie and so any feedback would be great! I especially love taking music related pictures. Too bad The Clarinet doesn't have a page where people could submit artistic clarinet pictures (but it could be seen as advertising, which I could understand if they didn't put a photography page in).
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-07-12 06:52
''here a photo of my Rossi, in rosewood.''
Javier - nice looking instrument - the little that I can see in the photo. Any chance of seeing the whole thing?
thanks,
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2006-07-14 02:36
Rossi Rosewood and Buffet R13 Prestige with Opperman Barrel.
See below for attachment...
Tom Piercy
Post Edited (2006-07-14 02:40)
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-07-14 03:04
Thanks Tom for the picture - I was hoping Javier might have a good closeup of the joints as well.
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-07-14 23:28
Here is my normal Gig horn, A Backun Tricked out Yamaha SEV with a "Fat Boy" Barrel and a Zebra wood bell. Man does this horn play
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-07-15 01:59
Zebra wood has awesome sound qualities, though very different from Cocobola, which I use for most "non-amplified" gigs. The weight of the Zebra wood is negligible. I play double lip, I play 4-5 hour long Jewish weddings, playing double lip, standing. The weight difference of a Zebrawood bell, with a special mic attachment and AKG 419 mic is .5oz lighter than the factory Yamaha bell. The sound of the zebra wood bell on the notes lower on the clarinet gives me a +5 db boost on E-F/B-C than a Cocabola or Yamaha bell. It actually sounds great without the mic too. If I can find the photo of the rig I'll post it. from an amplification stand point this set up sounds much better than the SDA? double mic set up. I can put it on a regular stand and I can use the mic on other instruments ie. C and Eb and sax on the same gig.
I'd love a zebra wood pen to Match this bell!!!
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-07-15 02:17
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Here it is, the gig rig. If you play a clarinet into a microphone for money you won't find anything that sounds more "real" than this.
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
[ Disclaimer - Tom Puwalski is listed on the Backun Musical Services website as a performing artist - GBK ]
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-07-15 03:18
Disclaimer - Tom Puwalski is listed on the Backun Musical Services website as a performing artist - The Nikon Digital Photographic artist- Yamaha clarinet performing artist- AkG microphone performing artist- Adobe Photoshop Digital artist- Protools digital artist-Yamaha digital sound performing artist and president of the Zebra wood conservation initiative- and tries everyday to be as "artistic" as possible - TSP ]
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-07-15 03:36
Tom Puwalski wrote:
> Disclaimer - Tom Puwalski is listed on the Backun Musical
> Services website as a performing artist - The Nikon Digital
> Photographic artist- Yamaha clarinet performing artist- AkG
> microphone performing artist- Adobe Photoshop Digital artist-
> Protools digital artist-Yamaha digital sound performing artist
> and president of the Zebra wood conservation initiative- and
> tries everyday to be as "artistic" as possible - TSP ]
While Tom might think it a joke, we try & make sure that people know the biases of people who make recommendations here. When someone is listed on a website as an official endorser or sponsor of a product then of course they should feel proud of it - and they should take the responsibility to make it clearly known to the reading public (who may not know about the tie-in) .
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-07-15 22:43
Thanks! The clarinet (Rosie) is made from Honduran rosewood, but the English horn (Felix) is plain ol' grenadilla...he just got lucky enough to be turned from a good piece of it, I guess! :-)
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2006-07-16 08:47
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Great thread.
I liked the snail photo, and the Rosie bell one. Never seen such a bell.
Here's some of my favorite cla pics that I collected from the internet.
Lucy Lee Jang
Post Edited (2006-07-16 08:52)
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Author: Vytas
Date: 2006-09-10 21:23
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My Selmer 'Centered Tone Omega'. The bell!
Vytas Krass
Clarinet Repair
Professional clarinet technician
Custom clarinet mouthpiece maker
Former professional clarinet player
Post Edited (2006-11-16 18:11)
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Author: Cosmicjello
Date: 2006-09-12 14:01
Mark Charette wrote:
> While Tom might think it a joke, we try & make sure that people know the biases of people who make recommendations here. When someone is listed on a website as an official endorser or sponsor of a product then of course they should feel proud of it - and they should take the responsibility to make it clearly known to the reading public (who may not know about the tie-in) .
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Not that Tom needs anyone to come to his defense but...
From Backun's website:
>How many players are on your artist roster?
Our philosophy is simple: If you play a Backun product, we consider you a Backun artist and would be happy to have you write a review of our products and services for our website, or submit a publicity shot for the famous wall of artists in our shop. Every client that contacts us gets the exact same service and products regardless of their ability or job description. Now how many companies can say that?
>
As far as Backun Musical Services is concerned, anyone who does or has ever played one of their products is an "Artist" if they submit a review of the product(s) and service(s).
So that being said, is there a difference in being an "Artist" versus an "Endorser".
Yes. I'll give an example.
If I have one of their products and write a review, I'm an Artist. Is there any benefit to me for being an "Artist". No. However, if I use their products and endorse/market them AND gain from my endorsement or marketing (payment and/or free or reduced products and services), then I feel that would warrant having the disclaimer.
But since I don't have first hand knowledge or proof that Tom is or is not paid for his "endorsement", I could have just wasted my breath and your time.
Thanks!
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Author: Malcolm Martland
Date: 2006-10-06 09:35
I put some of my clarinet photos on www.flickr.com but not especially arty. A Bb Lucien Bassi, plateau key and an Eb FA Uebel boehm. For my benefit more than any other reason. More to come. There are loads of other clarinet picture there already
My name in lower case with an underscore sparating the words is the handle you need to find them malcolm_martland
Malcolm
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-10-06 10:59
Not my photo, not a clarinet, not even arty, but if it's instrument p0rn u want then this offering from Howarth's takes some beating:
http://www.howarth.uk.com/wo/HowarthXLAutoCocoGold.jpg
Disclaimer: I am not, and have never been, a paid endorser for Howarth. (Chris P - please make out the cheque as usual.)
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-10-06 11:38
It's pay day today, so that'll be in your account by this afternoon.
Just one thing about that picture, the pinning screw used in the trill beam is too long, by about 0.5mm. I don't know how that one got past quality control - I'll find out who finished that one and tell them we've gone metric (even though it's still a 12BA thread)!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Avie
Date: 2006-10-06 12:44
Photo of my 1968 Buffet
Sorry. I goofed on the photo. I will try again.
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-10-07 01:25
Yes, but...I didn't lay it all out. (My birthday was last week...one guess what was the answer to every "What do you want for your bday?" question. :-) )
I uploaded a new pic as my avatar in my profile, too, just now! :-)
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Author: myrnabs
Date: 2006-10-07 02:53
I love your instruments. They must be HEAVEN to play. I'm jealous, in a good way.
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Author: myrnabs
Date: 2006-10-07 02:54
Nancy,
Your clarinet is a beauty. I love your stand, you're a genius. Do you make those to sell?
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-10-07 02:55
They say thank you :-)
The one thing that I will give them...they make the desire to pick them up and practice a HUNDRED times stronger. Every time I see them, my hands start to itch and I can't NOT practice.
So, one can say what one wants about the validity of have certain kinds of equipment, but the individual psychological effects make it all worth it, at least for me :-)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-10-07 20:52
Now I'd like to see a whole instrument made of the blue stripy wood!
We had some samples of 'grained' ebonite that mostly got turned into tonehole bushings on cocobolo instruments (the ones that looked most like cocobolo, that is), and one that struck me was a sample with dark green striped with black - and I wouldn't mind a whole instrument with that effect.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-10-07 20:58
A whole horn of it might be a bit...er...much? Interesting, though! I'll send Morrie an email and see if he'll get on it! I was actually expecting something more rainbow-y when I got the laminate barrel...if you go to Backun's website and go to the "Contact Us" page, there is a photo of 2 of their multicolored laminate barrels, and they're quite pretty in their variegated colors.
Ol' Smurfy has attracted some attention, though :-)
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Author: DressedToKill
Date: 2006-10-07 22:04
Black and white stripes would be gorgeous indeed, which is why I'm having a very good friend of mine here in NYC who makes PHENOMENAL piccolo headjoints (Mindy Kaufman, Jeffrey Khaner, and Jan Gippo have all puchased from him in the past year) make me a clarinet barrel out of this:
http://www.exoticwoodgroup.com/order_black-and-white_ebony.htm
I can't wait to see how it turns out! (I'm such an accessories nut...thank god I have bills to pay, or my entire paycheck would go to instrument paraphernalia every time)
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2006-10-07 22:33
I was sure I posted on this before...apparently not...
http://www.danielsanfordcasey.com/page4.htm
My Tosca Bb, and my Buffet RC bass...in slightly arty photos.
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-11-16 18:18
Carrie:
Great job on those pix - and you say you are just starting out. Maybe I ought to send you one of the surplus view cameras I have kicking around here and you can become the next Ansel Adams, but only if you don't neglect the clarinet!!
Eu
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2006-11-16 22:37
Thanks for the compliment! And, I would gladly accept a camera! Maybe I could end up doing some photography for the woodwind.org pages or something? Who knows?
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-11-16 22:50
Carrie:
Check your library for a photography book the covers the topic of "large format" photography and see if you would be willing to tackle working with sheet film, film holders, dark slides, ground glass focusing, and a big old heavy bellows camera that is a pain to use. However, if you ever figure out how to work one of those you can do all sorts of unbeleivable "arty" things with your clarinet photographs. Be forewarned, high speed photography with large format is probably something like one photo every 2 hours.
Eu
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2006-11-17 13:29
Oh, a revived thread!
Well okay, I recently did that one. Suits the upcoming holiday season. (I refrained from adding twigs and candles, though)
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Ben
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