Klarinet Archive - Posting 000820.txt from 1997/08

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Float Test and cologne/Koln
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 13:52:33 -0400

> >3. If we use the right fluorescent tags, we have further economic (as
> >well as artistic) potential - lets say we develop antibodies to
> >several different molecules which are in the wood or resin. If we
> >tag each of those antibodies with a different fluorescent label...
>
> You forgot to point out the added benefit to concert-goers: by using a
> light source of the proper wavelength, the clarinetist would glow with a
> colour dependant on the type of clarinet being used!

Absolutely - of course the price of concert tickets would have
to go up to account for the price of the lights required to make this
work, as well as the increased salaries clarinet players would have
to be paid in order to afford an instrument that now costs any
where from $500.00 to $2000.00 for each *gram* of clarinet...
In addition, there is an added value (maybe the overriding
value) to be considered here - Clarinets would finally attain that
"flashy" reputation that has so long eluded the instrument - using
this technique, we could finally "outshine" (literally) the brass
instruments in a way that they could never hope to duplicate!

> (P.S. I am sending, under separate cover, some scrapings from my
> clarinet. Thanks for your help!)
I'm firing up the lab even as we "speak"...
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
2105 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64124
email: dikarius@-----.EDU