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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-08-30 21:00
http://www.orsi-wind-instruments.it/cl_professionali.htm
whoa. i thought everyone jump shipped for metal clarinets because of the bad reputation. who else makes metal clarinets nowadays?
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2008-08-30 21:07
I have a very fine Leblanc stencil (Rauber aka Selmer Montreux) and I still can't see what should be wrong with it. I do get funny looks when I play it, though.
AFAIK Orsi are the only remaining (mass) manufacturers of metal clarinets.
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Ben
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2008-08-30 22:14
I noiticed an interesting mistake on those museum pages, Chris.... they list some of the older clarinets as being pitched at A=430 MHz, instead of Hz. MHz (Megahertz) would place them well into the UHF radio spectrum and out of the range of human hearing, which fizzles out in most cases at 20,000 Hertz (20 KHz).
Jeff
“Everyone discovers their own way of destroying themselves, and some people choose the clarinet.” Kalman Opperman, 1919-2010
"A drummer is a musician's best friend."
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Author: skygardener
Date: 2008-08-31 01:29
I just tried that very Orsi yesterday at the Japan Clarinet Fest. Very well made instrument with a horrible thumbrest design. The downside of metal is that pitch adjustment by adjusting toneholes is next to impossible.
Post Edited (2008-08-31 16:37)
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Author: kilo
Date: 2008-08-31 15:42
Then there's the Hanson titanium clarinet (T7-T) but I don't know if there is more than one of these in existence.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-08-31 19:31
"I noiticed an interesting mistake on those museum pages, Chris.... they list some of the older clarinets as being pitched at A=430 MHz, instead of Hz. MHz (Megahertz) would place them well into the UHF radio spectrum and out of the range of human hearing, which fizzles out in most cases at 20,000 Hertz (20 KHz)."
And too high for bats to hear!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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