Klarinet Archive - Posting 000386.txt from 1994/05

From: "Steven A. Haaser" <HAASER@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: The clarinet tree (what about tree farms?)
Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 10:04:13 -0400

Roger Shilcock:
-->Regular readers will know already that the Tree is Dalbergia melanoxylon, it
is
-->related to the acacias, and it grows in scrubland in South-Eastern Africa and
-->Madagascar - and it's time a search was commenced for Another Tree ...
-->Roger Shilcock [MLFL, Oxford, U.K.]

Jay Heiser:
>Or time to look into the idea of plantations. Wood is a renewable
>resource. If we're harvesting more than we're growing, maybe its
>time to grow more.

That would be a great idea. But aren't these trees very slow growers,
which gives them their fine grain and density? How old _should_ the
tree be before being harvested? I expect they are cut too early nowadays.
Plantations should have started many years ago to be helpful, eh?

Steve