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Author: KImbo
Date: 1999-03-23 03:49
i want to buy a bass clarinet and i found one at a good proce with new pads and all the only thing is its brown instead of black is there any difference
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 1999-03-23 12:07
That depends on whether you want it for its appearance or its sound. (Sorry about the sarcasm.) Try it out and see if you like the way it plays and sounds.
I assume it is a wooden instrument. I expect that the only reason a lot of clarinets are black is because they were stained that color. Manufacturers today seem to advertise their instruments as being made of _unstained_ grenadilla wood; as a result they are not perfectly black. It also may be made of a different wood as I understand some soprano clarinets are. And despite the ongoing controversy as to whether the material that the instrument is made out of contributes significantly to its timbre, the best way to resolve that issue is as I first suggested, try it out.
I am curious - who is the manufacturer, etc.?
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Author: ted
Date: 1999-03-23 13:07
If it's not grenadilla wood it MAY be more prone to cracking, even if the sound is indistinguishable. For me, that would be a reason to reconsider. Hopefully this one is unstained grenadilla, which can be brown in appearance.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-03-23 18:43
ted wrote:
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If it's not grenadilla wood it MAY be more prone to cracking,
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Curiosity, Ted. What exactly does that mean?
Since Grenadilla ends up being many types of wood (check Lelia Loban's article in the Equipment section on grenadilla), most of us have absolutely no idea what wood <b>really</b> makes up our clarinets.
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Author: ted
Date: 1999-03-23 20:38
I was comparing grenadilla to other types of wood. It's my understanding that a reason that manufacturers shy away from other types of wood such as rosewood or boxwood is that they are more prone to cracking and harder to tool than the grenadilla.
So when the author of the posting mentioned the color of the wood I assumend it was unstained grenadilla or another type of wood altogether. I understand that several tyes of wood are referred to as grenadilla. I appreciate the reference in the equipment section and will look at it.
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Author: KImbo
Date: 1999-03-24 06:40
well im buying it from ebay so i cant really play it but its a VINTAGE BASS CLAIRINET "HARRY PEDLER" ELKHART the guy got it an estate sale
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Author: KImbo
Date: 1999-03-24 06:44
is there a way i can get it stained or somthing just so it would have a better look and about how much would this cost if i do or can get this done and where is a place close to Los Angeles i can get it doe at if it is done at all
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Author: mark P.
Date: 1999-03-24 11:26
Have you actually won the eBay auction? If you got it at a good price, less than $250, it won't be a bad clarinet. But you better plan on spending some significant money getting it put into playing condition. I've bought numerous instruments on eBay and not one has been playable out of the box and I bid accordingly. You'd probably be better off getting a more modern intermediate bass if you're going to make it your primary instrument.
Pedlar was active from about 1925 - 1950. I have a metal Pedlar clarinet that has an OK tone.... not the screetchy sound I remember from most of them.
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Author: Contragirl
Date: 1999-03-24 21:34
Maybe it's rosewood. Are you sure you want it stained? I like the wooden look of unstained clarinets. It gives it "character".
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Author: UR2Qt2B4Got10
Date: 2001-02-15 20:50
I have just recently won an eBay auction with something that looked like a Clarinet, but the picture was poor. the title said Harry Pedler & Sons Inc. Clarinet? because the seller wasn't sure what it was. Since it was metal, he/she was confused. It looks like I stumbled across something good then! Could you be so gracious as to take a look at the picture and see if it looks anything like the one you have?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1405270875
I think I am very lucky.
Thanks!
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