Author: TomS
Date: 2016-10-23 22:05
Yeah ... my Ridenour clarinets do give off a slight sulfurous smell during hot Arkansas out-of-doors playing ... but the tuning stays manageable and the joints don't swell and seize up ...
Just leads me to believe that we haven't found a really, really good alternative to wood that has no disadvantages. ABS seems to mold with good precision, but apparently not the best in timbre ...
I do prefer silver plating ... the look and the feel of more friction ... but not possible with hard rubber, unless you coated the keys (as Selmer does with their new intermediate clarinets) to retard tarnish.
I played at one outdoors orchestra concert in our wonderful Arkansas hot and humid climate, many years ago (this was a terrible idea ... I don't know who booked this venue ...), and you could smell the varnish burning on the violins. We all looked like we have been through a car wash afterwards ... My Yamaha YCL-62's wood swelled up/distorted to the point that the lower ring key was scraping the one of the tone hole's chimney, and I almost couldn't get the clarinet apart!
Tom
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