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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-04-15 18:50
To the art class among us…
I’m wanting to paint a old “Lemaire” clarinet for a special occasion, but it has to be playable afterwards.. Does anybody have some experience with painting clarinets?
The outside of the wood is going to need another colour , I’m thinking about metallic blue.. and the whole keywork is going to be painted.
Eddy
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 19:00
Mask off the pads, toneholes, tenon corks first. Are you SURE you want to do this? Geez, a Lemaire ain't so bad, it's an intermediate SML after all --- if you have to paint a clarinet, why not sacrifice a Bundy or Artley or, better yet, one of those Chinese-made pieces of trash they're selling at Wal-Marts and all over the Internet?
Metallic blue sounds, uh, wonderful...............maybe with gold pinstripes?
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-04-15 19:13
I’m sure of it…. This one is the worst of all my clarinets, I bought it very cheap (25 euro) from our own orchestra. I know that it won’t getting better by painting it, but it just seems to be fun making my own coloured clarinet…
Eddy
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2004-04-15 21:32
I shouldn't mention that my own perfectly-playable "A" clarinet was slated for lamp conversion by its previous owner..............
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2004-04-16 03:00
Why not just pick up a Vito "Dazzler" off the internet and be done with it?
Susan
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2004-04-16 07:21
You will need to prime and undercoat the black in order to get coverage with any lighter colour. In other words at least 3 coats but probably 4. I agree with the Vito idea and then you can sell it later. If you paint a grenadilla clarinet it will be stuffed forever, not to mention heavy.
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2004-04-16 21:51
This reminds me of a "painting" that I once saw in a restaurant. In a long vertical frame was a background field of what I would call "granite" paint, this being a two component spray on finish with "speckles" of a lighter color sprayed on over a darker color. (You can purchase it at art and craft stores, two cans to the package.)
In the middle of the frame, mounted on two similarly painted machine screws, was a cheap standard Boehm clarinet (not a metal horn), also over painted (keys, reed, ligature and all) in the same material. (There was no masking involved, and the base color (I don't recall about the speckles) was covering the entire horn, including what was visible inside the tone hole areas, the pads and so forth.) It stood out from the surface about the same distance as the outer edge of the overall frame, making for a nice shadow effect in the bargain.
This combination offered a very abstract "it's there but it isn't" portrait of a clarinet, and one that obscures the cheap origins of the horn used to boot. One of these days when I find a really trashed horn, I'm going to do the same thing and mount in in a vertical space that we have that begs for something along the same lines.
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Author: RAMman
Date: 2004-04-16 23:06
We could start a whole line of novalty items.....
By our clarinet shaped cigarette lighter!
The words upper and lower JOINT could take on an entire new meaning.
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2004-04-16 23:29
Terry, that sounds like a fine application for one of the famed and dreaded "Orient" brand Indian Army instruments. (Does anyone actually *play* one of those things?)
Regards,
John
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Author: clarinetstudent
Date: 2004-04-17 03:42
Hey that sounds really cool! I am very fond of art and experimenting new things, I say go for it but make sure it's a clarinet you don't mind might be ruined...
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