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Bought one!

Author: karlbonner82
Date: 2010-04-24 07:14

I found a Craigslist ad for a $70 clarinet (A Conn Pan-American) and of course was not expecting much. And I definitely was not going to buy it without at least some evaluation of the horn's condition. Luckily I'm very good friends with a clarinet player and he offered to check it out. He said that for $70 it would be insanity not to buy it, and that it was almost every bit as good as his Yamaha 20 - one of the better plastic models according to many. So I bought it, and so far it seems to be working quite well for me!

Now I am skeptical of the idea that it's on par with the "really good" plastics such as the Vitos and the Buffet B-12s. And it could be that my friend's Yamaha 20 is not in perfect functional condition, at least not compared to a new specimen. So there could still be considerable room for improvement within the plastic microcosm - something that might be important further down the line if I end up playing outdoors or in noisy gigs a lot. (Or anything else where the horn would run the risk of being damaged or stolen). If you must use plastic for pragmatic reasons, it makes sense to have a top-end plastic instrument rather than a cheap one.

But the Conn I do have is definitely not a bad student clarinet. It should keep me busy long enough until I go for a better plastic horn as well as a good wood one.

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