Klarinet Archive - Posting 000254.txt from 1998/02

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Was it elitism...?
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 04:42:30 -0500

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jason Hsien wrote:

> The R-13 Greenline Clarinets aren't made of plastic! According to Boosey
> and Hawkes, its "90% recycled ground grenadilla wood" and the rest is
> just a synthethic compound to hold the grenadilla grounds together, but
> it's not plastic.

My trusty Webster's Dictionary says:

Plastic: n. Any of various nonmetallic compounds, synthetically
produced, usually from organic compounds by polymerization, which can be
molded into various forms and hardened...... etc., etc.

I think we need the scientific analysis of the material of the Greenline
instruments. If it is a compound, it is a plastic; if it is a mixture,
then it is not, according to the scientific classification of such things.

Ed Lacy
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