{"id":2908,"date":"2010-12-31T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:21:33","slug":"the-win-o-grad-a-quality-clarinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/31\/the-win-o-grad-a-quality-clarinet\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WIN-O-GRAD — A QUALITY CLARINET"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[If you came here because of the <\/em>Cleveland Jewish News, to read about the Fed man’s mega-salary, please click\u00a0 here <\/a>for the relevant post.\u00a0 If you’re here for other reasons — like you madly love this blog — simply go to the next line.] <\/em><\/p>\n

Michael Winograd, <\/strong>28,<\/span> <\/span><\/strong>is<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/span>one of the best klezmer clarinetists.\u00a0 He plays a handcrafted, custom-ordered clarinet from Canada. The axe looks like a howitzer, sounds tres<\/em> robust and weighs a ton. It should be in Cooperstown next to Babe’s bat.\u00a0 Winograd<\/a>‘s clarinet has extra keys to hit extra notes.\u00a0\u00a0 For instance, the octave key controls two tone holes — not just one — to get perfect intonation.<\/p>\n

\"Miguel

Miguel Winograd<\/p><\/div>\n

I saw Winograd’s instrument in Cleveland across a living room.\u00a0 I could almost feel its emanations. Yes! A clarinetist and I were about 15 feet from Winograd, and my friend asked what kind of horn Winograd had.\u00a0 I erroneously guessed it was an Albert system horn, like New Orleans jazz musicians used.<\/p>\n

There are only about 15 Win-O-Grads in the world, according to Winograd.\u00a0 (Stephen Fox Clarinets<\/a>, Canada, makes the Win-O-Grad.\u00a0 Fox typically calls the product an “extended-range C clarinet.”)<\/p>\n

How does one<\/strong><\/span> compete against the Win-O-Grad?<\/p>\n

Good question.<\/p>\n

\"strat\"Here’s how: The Strat. The Strat clarinet. (Similar to a Strad violin, but several thousand dollars cheaper.)\u00a0 The keys are molybdenum.\u00a0 The pads are horsehair.\u00a0 The bore – the inside of the horn – is swimming pool liner. \u00a0\u00a0The axe is titanium and weighs nothing.<\/p>\n

The Strat is<\/strong><\/span> excellent for jazz, klezmer or classical. The end of the clarinet (the bell) has a touch pad; press “1” and a music stand appears; press “2,” you get a pre-licked reed; press “3,” your choice of Heineken’s or Coors.<\/p>\n

The Win-O-Grad is a shtik<\/em> pipe cleaner compared to The Strat.<\/p>\n

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[Shtik<\/em> means “piece.”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[If you came here because of the Cleveland Jewish News, to read about the Fed man’s mega-salary, please click\u00a0 here for the relevant post.\u00a0 If you’re here for other reasons — like you madly love this blog — simply go to the next line.] Michael Winograd, 28, is one of the best klezmer clarinetists.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}