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Re: Chinese Rosewood Clarinets ?

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-10-17 03:38

I do own a plastic Jupiter that I am very fond of. Plastic clarinets are admirably consistant in their reponse to household environmental conditions. Here in northern Canada household atmospheric conditions wildly fluctuate.Wood is so responsive to those conditions that my wood clarinets often seem like total strangers to me. On some days their overtones are radically different from hour to hour ,especially in winter as forced air furnaces kick in and humidifiers fail to keep up.
I do most of my own servicing. The Vito has been especially frustrating. On the two occasions I took it into the repair shop it behaved perfectly and passed inspection. At home though it is almost always somewhere between half and totally dead due to leakage. The repair shop suggested that I try changing out corks and seals from the top down until the problem is eliminated since they couldn't find anything wrong with it. When it did work I played it head to head against another Vito. They both sounded the same to me.I have considered the possibility that both Vitos may have had a very minor identical upper leakage that affected their overtones. In regards to the Vito I have given up and conceded failure. Too much time spent with too few results as compared to my other dozen clarinets.
Once my full retirement benefits begin I plan to do a lot of internet vintage clarinet buying and restoration.
The cheap Rosewood appeals to me because it is new and Rosewood.I have never had a new instrument and probably never will have one over $1000.00. If it was a disappointment to play it would at least make an attractive ornament while I experimented with the barrels and bell on my other instruments.

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