Klarinet Archive - Posting 001174.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Clarinet material and Reed Questions
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:02:45 -0500

o boy...here we go again.

RG

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, noname wrote:

> Wood is as everybody knows the traditional material in manufacturing
> woodwinds. In the 17:th century an earlier on European Boxwood (Buxus
> sempervirens) was the ordinary material to make instruments of (still
> professional Recorders are often made out of Boxwood. Today the wood
> most used are "Blackwood", African Blackwood (Dalbergia Melanoxylon,
> Diospyros Melanoxylon, Diospyros crassiflora, Diospyros tomentosa,
> Diospyros assimilis) also called Ebony and Grenadilla. The "finest" wood
> (among sculptors, carvers, furniture makers) is considered Gaboon Ebony
> (Diospyros dendo). There are also simmilar woods from Ceylon (Diospyros
> ebenum).

etc.etc.