Klarinet Archive - Posting 001196.txt from 1997/10

From: "Laine" <tlaine@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Clarinet Material and Reed Questions
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 20:22:27 -0500

What do you mean by that comment, Roger??

Regards, Laine

> From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
> Subject: Re: Clarinet material and Reed Questions
>
> 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.