From: ContraReed
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:18:59 EDT
Subject: Re: [CB] affordable low C bass clarinet!
In a message dated 8/18/04 2:06:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Gregg writes:
<< Now that I have found out about the Amati low C at half
the cost of the others, I am interested in purchasing it with the
credit I have at WW&BW. I just wondered if any of you had any
advice.? >>
It might make a nice floor lamp. Historically, Amati
instruments are not very good, but they might be a step up from the
Chinese instruments they now sell at Sam's Club, Wal-Mart, K-Mart,
etc. You'll get what you pay for. Of course, you could get
one, and practice using your telekinetic powers to bend the keys on it
(but they'll probably do that themselves under ordinary use).
As long as you have a credit there, you could try one, but you
might be happier for the time being with a name brand Low-Eb bass
clarinet, and getting a low-C model in the future.
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:42:44 -0400
Subject: Re: [CB] affordable low C bass clarinet!
From: Michael C Grogg
A music company I once worked for used to sell Amati's. We
would bid them on school bids in place of Bundy instruments. We
could get them for about half of the cost of a Bundy, and I am sure
there were a lot of po'ed band directors that got them and weren't
happy. Quality of materials was pretty poor, and quality control
wasn't. The cases always smelled like the padding was made out of
dried cow manure.
I would pass on one if I were a woodwind player.
Michael
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From: Louis Rugani
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:49:37 -0500
Subject: [CB] OCB Sax
Hey, I just learned that Leblanc recently sold the
octocontrabass Bougneit sax for eighteen K. Somebody here get it?
Regards....
Lou
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **-=3D\/=3D-** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
=96 Robert Anthony
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From: "Sherry Katz"
Subject: Re: [CB] affordable low C bass clarinet!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:25:29 -0700
I tried the Amati bass clarinet at NAMM last year. I agree
with those who say it would make a nice floor lamp. Bundy and
Yamaha make surprisingly decent low Eb student instruments (the Yamaha
needs to be the newer model though - I had an older one and the octave
key mechanism assured a stuffy upper register).
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:49:22 -0500
From: Jim Quist
Subject: Re: [CB] affordable low C bass clarinet!
> I agree with those who say it would make a nice floor lamp.
Are there any really poor quality sopranino saxes that people
turn into table lamps?
Jim
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:51:43 -0700
From: Bill Lieske
Subject: Re: [CB] affordable low C bass clarinet!
Jim Quist wrote:
>>agree with those who say it would make a nice floor
lamp.
>
>Are there any really poor quality sopranino saxes that
people turn into table lamps?
>
What a great and funny question! If I get the drift... if
somebody will go to all the trouble to make a crappy C bass clarinet...
why not go all the way and make an unplayable sopranino? They way
I heard it, the stritch wasn't such a good horn. I bet Rashaan
would have played the heck out of an Amati C bass.... and if it broke
he would have fixed it with duct tape on the band stand.
Bill L.
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