| Mr. Malin,
I'm not doubting your observation about the CSO (and I wasn't there!), but are you sure they used Bach Black Plastics or were they Marcus Bona mutes? What was the context?
The "new" Bach plastics (anything not really old) are made of a hard plastic whereas the old ones are a bit more rubbery-feeling. The news ones sound too brittle to me for most soft passages.
Whatcha think? |