Klarinet Archive - Posting 000007.txt from 1994/06

From: "Roger J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Ebonite
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 04:23:41 -0400

Boosey & Hawkes ebonite clarinets were equipped with stainless steel keywork,
since the large sulphur content of the rubber could be expected to tarnish any
copper alloy pretty rapidly and turn it, not verdigris green, but BLACK.
I knew someone who played a Clinton-system specimen up to around 10 years ago.
Roger Shilcock [MLFL, OXFORD, U.K.]