Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 1994/05

From: Martin Brown <martinb@-----.AU>
Subj: Re: Wood and its availability
Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 09:46:56 -0400

There was an article in New Scientist (a well respected British
weekly) a few months ago about wood used in musical instruments.
("While my Guitar Destroys the Rainforests", Fred Pearce, 18 Dec 1993.)
And I quote:

Top of the endangered list...is a rosewood known as African
blackwood [grenadilla in Americanese], a native of East Africa
that is harvested to make an estimated 100 000 clrinets round
the world each year, as well as harpsicord keys. "There is
less than 20 years supply left," warns Read. "Yet these trees
take 70 years to grow to a harvestable size.

Sounds like it might be time to find a substitute.

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