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I'm thinking of buying one of the 5G thingies if they are so fab. Mind you the max I will pay is a fiver from one of the Chinese sellers. I can add my own sticky dot. If (when) it does nothing at least I will have a USB memory stick.
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Different woods used for musical instruments such as the oboe and clarinet definitely change the tone of the instrument. Musicians swear by their particular choice, and type of mouthpiece and ligature.
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With vanity purchases, isn't the object to get all the people you want to impress to witness how much you paid for it?
So they could just see A) that you've got one and B) Check the price in the adverts. It would save on having to have a cheque posting party, or having them help stuff banknotes in envelopes. David
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(I once played a brass clarinet in a shop, which was apparently a thing for marching bands before plastic became available and dealt with the 'playing in the rain' problem with wooden instruments. I was amazed that it sounded entirely like a clarinet (woody!), and nothing like a soprano sax which it resembled. But yes, the mouthpiece makes a huge difference; much more than the rest of the instrument which generally works if not full of backlash and leaky pads. Charlie Parker played a plastic sax for a bit).
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Back when I was playing a whole lot more I used a Selmer Prologue, but I changed the regular plastic mouthpiece for a crystal one. That made a significant difference to the tone, range, and loudness of the instrument. I also went away from the regular metal ligature to a flexible plastic one, wiped over with Armourall.
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I play a little sax still, but the tight clarinet embouchure and the tricky middle register now completely throw me And even though I worked in acoustics for 25 years, I still don't have a solid handle on why a clarinet overblows to an octave and a fifth (behaving like a 1/4 wave tube) and a sax to an octave, when the termination conditions are so similar. There we go!
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Enough sensibility (grin) we need more foolery!!
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My flute teacher compares the embouchure needed to having just eaten a lemon. Probably totally different to that needed for a sax or clarinet.
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Unfortunately, it is legally accepted that there is a degree of slack in the system, so an advertiser can trumpet "Threadgold's new oblimerators are the best in the world" and it's taken as meaningless marketing puff. They all say that sort of thing. It cannot be disproven, it cannot be proven, it cannot even be defined. It all comes under the 'Washes whiter!' sort of thing.
If they got numerical, or specified a reproducible test, then they could get done for it. Our golden-eared friends just happen to be all about non-numerical properties, ones without any real definition. 'Ere, mate, this magic crystal you sold me is six inches short on soundstaging improvement" But if some £20,000 'interconnects' aren't a full metre long when the advert says they are, then gotcha! an enforceable description. I think it's just coincidence that the primary properties on which audiophoolia is sold just happen to be undefinable and therefore unenforceable. Besides the remaining consumer protection/weights and measures people seem to be fully occupied chasing pirated DVDs. David
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I cannot get a note out of a flute to save my life. But with a clarinet - and I guess other reeded woodwinds - the instrument produces a distinctly different pressure depending on which overblow you are on. It is a bit like chest voice and head voice when singing.
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Buyer beware seems to sum it up nicely. Probably stems from an ancient Roman scam.
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