Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1998/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wood 101
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:52:04 -0400

At 01:55 PM 5/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>One of the major probalems is that Honduran Rosewood, just like Grenadilla
>Wood (wherever it comes from. I've heard Mozambique) are all endangered
>woods, and are protected.
>
>But, many musicians won't accept Greenline (recycled Grenadilla) as wood
>even, so... oh well...

Well, at least Buffet appears to: the R13 Greenline costs exactly as much
as the grenadilla horn.

Does anyone else make this kind of instrument, i.e., wood plus compound?

Ken

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649

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