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 Re: My new Ridenour clarinet
Author: Ken Shaw 2017
Date:   2006-11-25 00:25

Bassoons are made of wood on the outside, but the entire descending bore is lined with Bakelite plastic and has been for over 100 years. The left-hand finger holes are lined with brass.

Until he switched to a Yamaha, Rick Woodhams, the principal oboist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, played a Lorée with a plastic top joint, and Lorée charges **more** for plastic than for wood.

Alexander Williams played a silver Eb in the New York Philharmonic, and Gaston Hamelin played silver clarinets as principal in Boston.

Robert Spring has played a Greenline (i.e., plastic) Buffet for years. I was in the NYC WW&BW when Jon Manasse was picking out clarinets for his students at Eastman, and all of them were Greenline Festivals.

I hate nickel plating. My fingers keep sliding off the keys. If Tom Ridenour offered German silver keys, I'd probably buy a Lyrique.

Ken Shaw

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