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Author: Laurie
Date: 2001-07-11 23:44
And the point of that is what ?! Why would someone cover their wood horn with metal ? I'm confused !!!
Lauri
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Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2001-07-12 00:43
It was probably an attempt to make a horn that is less prone to cracking and fluxuations.
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Author: mw
Date: 2001-07-12 02:51
Necessity is the Mother of Inventions. We have "Bad Hair Days" Maybe they were having "Bad Wood Decades" ? A few bad Billets might get you thinking. Best, mw
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Author: willie
Date: 2001-07-12 04:42
There were clarinets made with the metal on the inside too, I believe. I think it was Preuffer who did this.
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Author: David
Date: 2001-07-12 18:02
Metal on the outside makes more sense to me. But if I was going to coat a wood clarinet with metal, I would personally attempt both sides.
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Author: drew
Date: 2001-07-12 19:39
I've seen and played on a similar horn manufactured by C.G. Conn which was their "armoured" model. It was a hard rubber instrument with an outer casing of thin metal. Apparently they were built in an attempt to get the benefits of both materials (metal = weatherproof, but unable to have "fraised" toneholes, the rubber liner makes fraising possible). J.P. Sousa (remember Starts & Stripes?) endorsed these horns in a Conn ad.
At one time metal clarinets were very popular and it was felt that the metal bodies imparted tonal qualities that a wood or rubber instrument was not capable of. With modern science we now know that the material makes a highly insignificant contribution to the tonal/acoustic properties of an instrument. Theoretically you could make a clarinet out any material of similar density (concrete?) and it would sound the same as a fine wood instrument.
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