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Re: Buying Metal Clarinets Online?

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2018-04-29 09:26

While I can't directly answer your question, I will say that as a rule of thumb, there's a stigma associated with bringing a metal clarinet into a classical environment (at least there always was for me throughout high school and college.) Much of it is justified, and some is not.

I share this link frequently, but it really is fun: Clarinet Listening Test. I fooled myself into thinking I had done better than I had the first time, because I hadn't written my answers down. I suggest writing your answers down in order to have the most fun with it. (It's quite an old link now.) It doesn't compare the specific makes/types you're asking about, but it's in the same vein.

For marching band, I always used my "original" clarinet - a used Plastic Vito. However, I always kept my first metal clarinet ready to use as a backup (low-end metal clarinet). I ended up spending about half of a marching season on my metal during college. Frankly, I was surprised that it did way better than either my Vito or the other clarinetist's clarinets that year. It held up great! (Sometimes it would get so cold during marching season that we'd have icicles hanging from our bells!) It played better in tune than my Vito did in those colder days...which really surprised me (perhaps "better in tune" had something to do with more closely matching the metal contraction/expansion of the trumpets and trombones?)

Fuzzy

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