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RE: Do plastic clarinets have better tone?

Author: Dee
Date: 1999-08-11 04:32

Workmanship and acoustic design are what affect a clarinet's sound not the material. Please always keep in mind that right now, with the exception of the Buffet Greenline series, that all plastic clarinets are student grade and thus do NOT have the workmanship and advanced acoustic features of the pro horns. The old wooden beginner student instruments were no better and often worse than today's plastic student horns.

While people have posted their personal experiences, if you read them in detail, you will find that they are comparing two different levels of instrument. The wood ones that they list as having compared their plastic ones to have invariably been intermediate and higher grade instruments. No one has compared a beginner wood to a beginner plastic (I'm not sure anyone even makes a beginner wood anymore). There have been no postings on this board about say a plastic Vito Reso-tone 3 versus the old student grade wooden Pan American. Well guess what, I've played both and I'll take that Vito any day of the week. It sounded better and played better than the Pan American. While my pro grade Leblanc played better than either, the Vito was nothing to be ashamed of and was certainly a far better instrument than the wooden Pan American.

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