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Author: salsacookies
Date: 2011-04-23 06:39
Is it made with unstained wood? It seems to have a lot more brown tones throughout the entire thing than my Leblanc LX A which looks more like a typical wood clarinet. I researched the rapsodie before I bought it and i didn't find anything about if it was stained or not. maybe you guys would know...
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Author: CocoboloKid
Date: 2011-04-24 01:18
Leblanc always leaves their clarinets unstained. Your Rapsodie (much like the one I used to own) probably is just made of a particularly colorful piece of wood.
You should see the bottom joint of my Leblanc/Backun Legacy...it looks like rosewood!
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Author: salsacookies
Date: 2011-04-24 07:14
The Leblanc LX A clarinet that I have looks nothing like the Rapsodie though. It looks more like the Selmer Series 10's that I was playing on. You could definitely see the brown tones in the bell, but they were harder to see in the rest of the body of the clarinet. I'll post pictures tomorrow
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Author: CocoboloKid
Date: 2011-04-24 16:12
Attachment: Backun Legacy A clarinet.jpeg (257k)
Doesn't necessarily mean it was dyed...it was most likely older (aged), denser wood, and grenadilla wood occurs in a wide variety of natural tones. Some of it, without being dyed, is naturally very, very dark with very few of the red flames/streaks, and some of it looks nearly like rosewood (which only makes sense, as grenadilla is a member of the rosewood family). There are tremendous variations in the color of various pieces of wood, as it is a natural product, after all.
I've attached a photo of my A clarinet...you can see the wood on the lower joint is much lighter in color than the wood on the upper joint. It's just how wood is.
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