Klarinet Archive - Posting 001321.txt from 1998/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plastic?
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 06:18:28 -0400

"Polycarbonate" fibre? Shouldn't this be "carbon fibre"? Polycarbonate is
what most cameras are made of nowadays.
Roger Shilcock

On Mon, 25 May 1998, Jason Hsien wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 23:05:04 -0700
> From: Jason Hsien <jasonavhs@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: Re: [kl] Plastic?
>
> -----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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