Klarinet Archive - Posting 001268.txt from 1998/05

From: "Jason Hsien" <jasonavhs@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plastic?
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 02:05:04 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: GTGallant <GTGallant@-----.com>

|In a message dated 98-05-25 20:14:27 EDT, you write:
|
|<<
| Don't forget the simple little fact that almost no one has ever tried to
| make a plastic clarinet with the care and, even the dignity, that wood
ones
| get. (I won't say never, because I'm sure it's been done before, just not
by
| the big 3) >>
|
|
|Buffet makes the Greenline plastic clarinet. By the way, Resonite is a
|thermoplastic.

But, the Greenline is not so plastic. I don't believ what people say that
Greenline should be considered a plastic either. It's 90% Grenadilla wood.
And, if we're gonna get technical about it, it's also 5% polycarbonate fiber
and 5% epoxy resin.

I understand why some people may agree with you that it shouldn't be
considered a wood instrument. But it's 90% wood. It's recycling unused and
old wood, so that us greedy, wasteful musicians won't keep tearing down
acres of trees just to satisfy our need for ultra-high quality *wood*
instruments. Without the "plastic", how else are all those wood chips gonna
stick together?

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