Klarinet Archive - Posting 000757.txt from 1998/02

From: Mitch Bassman <mbassman@-----.com>
Subj: acoustics/rare woods/K.Harby
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 10:39:06 -0500

I hope FLUTE list member Ellen Macdonald doesn't mind my forwarding her
message to the KLARINET list, but I agree with her assessment that the
referenced _Scientific American_ article is "too interesting to miss."
(And, Ellen, the flutists' "unending debate on differences in materials"
has been equally, if not more, intense among clarinetists.)

The article, by flutist Karla Harby, supports much of the scientific
evidence that we've been reading on KLARINET for the past several years and
even discusses Buffet's Greenline clarinet.

--Mitch Bassman

>Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 08:20:47 -0600
>Reply-To: Ellen Macdonald <ellen@-----.COM>
>Sender: Flute Playing and Related Issues <FLUTE@-----.EDU>
>From: Ellen Macdonald <ellen@-----.COM>
>Subject: acoustics/rare woods/K.Harby
>To: FLUTE@-----.EDU
>
>There is a short article by (former?) list member Karla Harby in the March,
>1998 Scientific American. It may be found in the print edition and online at
>
> http://www.sciam.com/1998/0398issue/0398scicit3.html
>
>The title is "Unsound Reasoning: Are wind musicians loving tropical wood to
>death?" The article is very well written and provocative, indicating
>extensive research. She mentions Robin Jakeways, another list member.
>
>I was hesitant to tell you all about this article because of the danger of
>starting another unending debate on differences in materials :-), but it is
>too interesting to miss.
>
>Ellen Macdonald
>ellen@-----.com