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Re: Corton Clarinet info?

Author: beejay
Date: 2006-05-21 11:01

The only inscription I can find on my Corton is a small L627 registration mark on both parts of the body. David was right, and I stand corrected -- it was the barrel, not the mouthpiece, that was the odd size. I can't remember what the mouthpiece was -- standard Red Army issue probably. The wooden body is surprisingly good quality with very dense, close-grained ebony. Why they would want to spoil that by using a plastic barrel, I have no idea but there were many things under communism that made no sense at all. The key work is functional but not very elegant. By CSO I was referring to the cheap clarinets coming out of Asia and sold in Western supermarkets for relatively little. They look like clarinets but sound awful and don't last. Clarinets like the Corton may be rudimentary by modern standards, but they were made for an informed and music-loving public, and were relatively decent -- a bit like old Melodya records, I suppose.

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