Author: johnnydodds
Date: 2020-01-24 10:39
Yeah, clearly you didn't read my post. I certainly do own pro instruments worth a lot of money. But like I said in my post, I play outdoor gigs in a temperate rainforest, very humid and wet. So I need a plastic one or a metal one. I use spendy wood barrels and they are full of superglue from cracking on cold days. Certainly don't need that all over my good wood horns. If I am buying an A clarinet I am not buying a $5000 horn that cracks all over from my rough weather gigs, or worse, gets ripped off in this increasingly anarchic city. If I buy a wood one I am definitely going cheap as possible, hence the usefulness of a list of A models made by various companies over the years. And according to my tech some of them were damn decent and didn't break the bank either, and if you get lucky you can find them with a watchful eye on the listings.
And to be honest with you, I prefer the sound of plastic, mellowed with a wood barrel. It's louder and has a brighter, more cartoonish tone, perfect for trad jazz. I've really never been a horn eilitist. I play waht works for me and couldn't care less what kind of smirks I get from other musicians. I make my entire living performing and most of them are teachers that perform as a hobby for very little money.
This website has all kinds of lists of clarinets, so I'm not really following your conjectural train of thought on the uselessness of an A-clarinet list. If one person has a use for it it's not useless, even if that use is just to catalog all the different ones that have been made over the years.
Post Edited (2020-01-24 10:47)
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