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Re: Corton Clarinet info?

Author: RoBass
Date: 2010-03-11 12:34

@beejay: One technical remark for future searches: The "plastic" with this clarinets is hard rubber (ebonite/vulvcanite), not plastic. The bell was made often from this material because of it's high damping coefficient near to wood and it's resistance against damage. The second the material is easy to form and cheap. The influence of bell material is less than 1 or 2% of all sound capabilities. It's not mandatory to do the bell from wood...
That's the reason, nothing else.-)

The oily smell is typical for hard rubber pieces, and the bell easy could be polished back to pure black.

kindly
Roman

PS: The Soviet instruments (really CSOs from factory "Orfei" Kiev;-) itself were made from hard rubber mostly or a fibre reinforced resin like Pertinax. Bells sometimes were made from compacted paper stuff (with a resin binder?) and painted black. The mouthpieces came in very smooth plastic and terrible shaped ;-( I wonder alltimes, that this MPCs could produce scale tones 8-}

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