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http://omaha.craigslist.org/msg/1781789142.html" target="_blank

So there you have it.

Pictures are available upon request, but it basically looks like ever other clarinet on the planet.

This line is even better (and TRUE!)

but they didn't need any more clarinets.

Since we don't often talk about clarinets here, here's something I ran into this morning via another Craig's list ad - an article by Tom Ridenour, who is for real, presenting the claim that `hard rubber' is the ideal material for clarinet bodies (not wood.) This might be good for seriously annoying a clarinetist of your acquaintance.

http://www.ridenourclarinetproducts.com ... lamyth.htm

Donn wrote:Since we don't often talk about clarinets here, here's something I ran into this morning via another Craig's list ad - an article by Tom Ridenour, who is for real, presenting the claim that `hard rubber' is the ideal material for clarinet bodies (not wood.) This might be good for seriously annoying a clarinetist of your acquaintance.

http://www.ridenourclarinetproducts.com ... lamyth.htm

The real reason is that hard rubber clarinets don't catch fire so easily when tubists try to light them with burning bassoons.

Donn wrote:Since we don't often talk about clarinets here, here's something I ran into this morning via another Craig's list ad - an article by Tom Ridenour, who is for real, presenting the claim that `hard rubber' is the ideal material for clarinet bodies (not wood.) This might be good for seriously annoying a clarinetist of your acquaintance.

http://www.ridenourclarinetproducts.com ... lamyth.htm

Actually, Mr. Ridenour's instruments were brought to my attention several years ago by a friend who is a talented clarinetist -- he's played one and was very impressed. I bought a rosewood tuba mouthpiece some years ago (and have used it in performances where appropriate) ... sounds like a hard rubber tuba mouthpiece might be worth trying.

Well, this is just my personal, ignorant opinion, but ... I don't doubt that rubber is an excellent material for clarinets (except for the odor problem), but it would be because of how it works, in the sense of woodworking. Any two clarinet bodies shaped exactly the same will sound the same, but there won't be any such exactly the same, they'll have minute differences in the shape of tone holes etc. Rubber mills well and it's stable, so ... there you go. Ironically, with all the clarinetists in the world convinced that wood is the ultimate material for clarinets - clarinet mouthpieces are hardly ever made of wood. Mouthpiece is by far the most dimensionally critical part of the instrument, specifically the surface facing the reed. Any warp in the table or rails there will make it hard to even play, and no wood is stable enough to compete with something like rubber.

bloke wrote:Yes. Hard rubber (upon oxidation) STINKS. I've become quite versed at removing oxidation from the sides and tops of clarinet and saxophone hard rubber mouthpieces without ruining them.

Hmmm ... hadn't thought of that ... might not make a good tuba mouthpiece after all.

Kevin Hendrick wrote:I bought a rosewood tuba mouthpiece some years ago (and have used it in performances where appropriate)

http://omaha.craigslist.org/msg/1791240911.html" target="_blank

I don't know any technical terms, but it's black and has silver "knobs" or whatever.