Klarinet Archive - Posting 000180.txt from 1997/02

From: Benjamin Maas <bm004e@-----.EDU>
Subj: Buffet Greenline...
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:18:26 -0500

I have tried the greenlines and loved them. Some are better than others,
but you would expect that from any hand-made instrument. Buffet takes all
of the scrap wood that they have and they grind it up in to sawdust. They
then mix it with an acrillic resin of some sort and carbon fibers. This
way, they are able to give the scrap a new life. Because it is a
"high-tech particleboard" that they make the instruments out of, they
don't look as pretty as the solid wood horns. If I had problems with
horns cracking, I would definitely consider one of the greenlines, because
they are every bit as good as "normal" R-13s.

Just my $0.02

Ben Maas

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*Benjamin Maas * Which is more musical, a truck passing*
*Student, Eastman School of Music * by a factory, or a truck passing by a *
*bm004e@-----.edu * music school? -John Cage, 1957*
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