Klarinet Archive - Posting 000138.txt from 1997/09

From: Floyd Williams <f.williams@-----.au>
Subj: Re: Greenlines cracking and making the things
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:36:13 -0400

Roger Shilcock wrote:
>
> But you've got to have the discarded wood to do this. If there is no
> process which produces this, then there's nothing to make greenlines from,
> so the saving in trees can only occur if Buffet don't increase production.

The advantage to making clarinets from woodchips is that you don't need
billets of a particular size. It takes a large bit of wood without
serious defects to make a clarinet a clarinet bell.
The Greenline can be made from any bits of the tree.

Regards,
--
Floyd Williams
Queensland Conservatorium-Griffith University