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Author: Meri
Date: 2000-05-23 14:57
Hi everyone!
You guys will not believe this, but at a wedding party I was at on Sunday night, the clarinetist of the Macedonian band Biser, Chris Dimovski, uses a metal Bb clarinet--and it sounds really amazing, with pretty good intonation..
(Unfortunately, I could not get the make of his metal instrument.)
Meri
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Author: Mary
Date: 2000-05-23 16:02
Hi Meri-
I'm not surprised.
I play a lot of Macedonian music, and have studied over there with some Macedonian Roma (gypsy) musicians. One of the most famous sax/clarinetists, Ferus Mustafov (check out his CD-there's one available in the states) also uses a metal clarinet. He likes the sound. Turkish clarinetists usually play a G clarinet (lower than the A) with albert system keywork, and you often see these in metal as well. The tonal quality they're looking for is different- and in some cases, topnotch instruments are hard to come by, for reasons of availability and cost (economics over there are abominable right now). Still, you do find folks playing Buffets too. I've seen excellent clarinetists over there pick up what I would call junk and soound better than I do on an R13. Don't know what brands of metal clarinets are floating around there- probably a lot of different ones.Hope this helps or is interesting
Mary
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-05-23 16:22
Fascinating information, Meri and Mary. IMHO, the idea that all metal clarinets sound bad is a myth anyway. True, there are a lot of cheap, bad, lowest-common-denominator metal clarinets out there, but the good ones sound fine to me. There's no inherent reason a metal clarinet can't sound just as good as a wooden one, if they're equally well constructed.
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2000-05-25 03:22
www.biserbalkanksi.com/music
Then click on Biser. They have selections you can listen to with an MP-3 player. I can't do that tonight on webtv, but tomorrow at work on aol...
Steve
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Author: Dave Lee Ennis
Date: 2000-05-25 12:43
Sorry steve, but you spelt the website wrong! You got the 's' and the 'k' the wrong way round. It's:
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www.biserbalkanski.com/music
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Sorry to be picky, but I'm right aren't I?!
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2000-05-26 01:56
Absolutely. Also, unfortunately, the MP-3 thing is for sale, not samples, and the Real Audio links for samples weren't working whe I checked:-(
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