 The Ethnic Clarinet
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Author: newlife2001
Date: 2010-02-05 03:08
To Kalakos, regarding post of Thursday, February 4, 2010 5:13 PM and everyone else in the forum, of course
Kalakos wrote:
> I know several people who have complained about the absolute
> poor quality of some of these instruments. They have said to
> avoid them, period.
I'm not sure to exactly what model of clarinet your colleagues were referring to. For example, the other G clarinet I saw on the China Musical Instrument Company website was listed as:
Popular model, Bakelite body, usd 166.50
Bakelite is a moldable plastic. If they did buy a clarinet made out of that material what did they expect it to sound like?
I just realized something remarkable about the G clarinet I purchased from China. The manufacturer lists it as being made from "ebony" wood. When I got it, the wood was brown and I was surprised. The company did not intentionally misrepresent the product. I thought ebony wood was always black. [Until very recently I thought my French Martinaux B-flat was made out of ebony. Well, I was wrong about that. My Martinaux is actually made out of Dalbergia Melanoxylon, African blackwood, a type of grenadilla.]
There are actually 300 species of ebony wood. I believe my G clarinet is made from one is called "Brown Ebony" (very heavy and hard, not a true ebony, chocolate brown with fine dark stripes). And the species classification according biologists is Caesalspinia granadillo, brown ebony.
The design of my G clarinet seems like a direct copy of the Serkan Cagri model from Karl Hammerschmidt and Sons. It looks exactly like that. I can't determine if the F-key was egonomically optimized. I'll assume it wasn't. Hammerschmidt lists the retail price in Germany as $2,746.94 USD. I paid $343.40 including shipping. From China the New York City. I'm astonished ... almost embarrassed. It might even be real.
http://karl-hammerschmidt-klarinetten.de/g_klarinetten.htm
By the way, I certainly don't work for the China Music Company. You can find them on Alibaba.com if you are interested. I'm just sharing.
And yes, I would steer clear of the bakelite. No offense to our honorable neighbors to the East, but a lot of plastic toys have been recalled from that part of the world, so ... proceed with caution, by all means.
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buedsma |
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fredd |
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dp |
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fredd |
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Kalakos |
2005-10-27 19:34 |
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fredd |
2005-10-28 14:16 |
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Kalakos |
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newlife2001 |
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