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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-04-06 17:30
Gee, I wish I kept up my hebrew after my Bar Mitzvah. Actually I studied it in high school too but barely passed. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2010-04-06 18:30
Did you try the Josef clarinets? He makes excellent oboes. I'd be curious to know what his clarinets are like.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-04-07 06:04
Skygardener: This is a compact contrabass saxophone made by J'elle Stainer.
Ed: You can use Google Language Tool for a rough translation of almost any website.
Liquorice: I tried them. I thought they were good and can compare with professional models from other companies for anyone who is interested.
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Author: Sarah Elbaz
Date: 2010-04-07 06:42
Nitai,
You have a nice site. I think that you should translate it to English because it's interesting and informative.
I'll tell my students to visit it,
Sarah
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Author: clarinet60
Date: 2010-04-07 16:20
I was at the Musikmesse show in Frankfurt and did try the Joseph clarinet which evidently is made in Japan. The crafstmanship was quite nice with some interesting designs, including a barrel that has a thin sleeve the goes into tenon of the upper join so when you pull out, there won't be a gap. The throat A and g# key have a slightly different type of design on the positioning of the pad cups. Also, it has a 6th ring similar to many older vintage clarinets. The bell almost appeared like a Mazzeo system clarinet. I do recall that the spring tension was very light, which is not typically my preference, but I'm not saying that it was good or bad. As far as the sound qualities and intonation go, it was far too noisy to be able to assess these attributes, although it seemed to play fairly well for a pro level instrument.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2010-04-08 06:30
Sarah, I tried once and it was just way too much work. With all the technical terms it will take too long. Maybe in the future.
>> The throat A and g# key have a slightly different type
>> of design on the positioning of the pad cups.
It's not really the pad cups that have different positions, it's the keys and arms, with the purpose of using a needle spring for the A key. A needle spring can have advantage over a flat spring but I didn't the Josef had a better feel to the A key really, felt normal. There is an additional linkage though instead.
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