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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2007/10

From: Juan Zuccolo <jzuccolo03@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: Plastic reeds
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:04:32 -0400

In days of old when glass fiber was very expensive and unavailable in
me home country, the substitute most widely used was "sisal" fiber
used in the manufacture of cloth, rope and such; and for the
manufacture of small boat hulls, the binder of course was polyester
or similar polymer, if carbon fiber is "too britle"maybe someone
ought to try this (Sisal) combo...

Juan

At 02:46 PM 04/10/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi -
>
>I was asked about carbon fiber as a material for making reeds.
>
>I really don't know if it could be made to work or not. I suspect
>that it is too brittle to vibrate in the musical frequencies, if one
>makes it thin enough so that a force as weak as our breath can set
>it into motion.
>
>Then again, arundo donax is carbon-based fiber. Maybe someone with
>more physics or materials engineering expertise can give a definitive answer.
>
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>Albany, CA
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