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Re: Plastic Marching?

Author: Sally
Date: 2010-10-22 14:13

I often play onstage in musicals and when it is too risky to use my decent clarinet, I play on a plastic Yamaha. Not sure exactly what model of Yamaha it is but it was not expensive.

It is very easy to blow, bright tone, and easy to get a large dynamic range - in fact it is much easier to play loudly on than my good clarinet! It goes slightly sharp quite quickly as it warm us, and it is obviously more difficult to get a warm tone from a decent wooden clarinet. I usually find that I need to do some pulling in and out at all joints to keep the whole instrument in tune when it is warm.

I have also found that the right hand B/C mechanism gets bent slightly out fairly easily. It's also easy to bend back though! (Also this probably happens to my instrument due to the nature of the work - it gets carried around a lot onstage when not being played)

Generally I find this a perfectly playable instrument, especially in a situation where nuances of tone are not so important.

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