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RE: Do plastic clarinets have better tone?

Author: William Fuller
Date: 1999-07-20 22:34

Your mouthpiece and reed set-up is more of a factor in the quality of your sound than the material a horn is made from. Also, your inner-concept of what a clarinet should sound like is important for you will alwasys strive to sound that way no matter shat you happen to be playing on. Good mouthpiece+good reed+concept="sound". The big advantage of a wooden clarinet over "plastic" is in more careful workmanship at the factory and the resulting eveness of scale and consitancy of intonation. Also, they can be "Tweeked" by accousticians for even better results. On the other hand, my old Bundy clarinet never cracked and always played--even after being dropped down a flight of cement steps in high school. Good luck!!!!!!

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