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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-08-29 21:59
It's Item # 902931817, and it sure looks like it to me. I knew somebody had made lucite Clarinets (Oskar Kroll wrote of having played one -- he said it was quite good), but I did not realize that Buffet was a builder of them.
Regards,
John
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-08-29 22:54
I don't want to sound cynical but ... it always astounds me the number of people selling clarinets on eBay that have no idea what they are actually selling. One reading of their descriptions gives that away ... do these instruments fall of the back of trucks?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-08-30 00:14
Through an impeachable source, I heard a convincing history on these.... when Buffet sent the B12 model off to Schrieber for production, there were some tooling changes.
The clear lucite made it obvious for inspection where the tooling was insufficient, of cutting was working properly.
I also understood that one of these was run after a certain number of standard plastic billets were milled to check on tool wear.
A marketing ploy developed to turn these test subjects into displays for the distributors.
This story could be all wet, but it is plausible.
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Author: msroboto
Date: 2002-08-30 02:51
interesting.
I would love to see it out of the case. That velvet in the background gives a strange look.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2002-08-30 05:25
Awhile ago, I read somewhere (perhaps the Klarinet list) that Giora Feidman sometimes plays one of these. This is about the third one I've seen on eBay over the last few years. As I recall, they've all brought over $700. So which will it be, a clear plastic B12 or a Kaspar mouthpiece? The choice is yours!
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-08-30 17:34
What an interesting thread-posts here and in those earlier, referenced by our "researchers". Yes, these cls are prob. made of Lucite, duPont and others, one of many "acrylic" polymers, beginning with poly methyl methacrylate back in the 1930's [about the same time as nylon's development]. More recently [1970+?] other highly-clear and translucent polymers have been made and used, just look around. So, there are other possibilities, but as pointed out, scratching and the flexibility/crack-prone considerations need be taken into account by makers. There is a "Polypropylene Bassoon" [black, maybe a bit too flexible?, I had one of these once] US patent [expired] to Fox and likely other [foreign] patents. Lots to choose from, like Vito's ?Dazzler? Don
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