Klarinet Archive - Posting 001413.txt from 1998/05

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plastic?
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 00:06:59 -0400

Jason Hsien responded to the following message about the Buffet Greenline:

|<< 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. >>
|Not this again! Please go back to the archives and look up all the worn
out
|threads related to this topic. It's tiring repeating plastics to
non-plastics
|subject matter over and over. You are absolutely Wrong about what you
wrote,
|sorry!

Jason's words follow:

>Absolutely wrong? I would like to say, just as a start, I have all the
>messages from the previous, I believe 2, arguments about this, so I am no
>"newbie" to this discussion, but every time this discussion ends, it
always
>ends on the undecided factor, and we never settle it, so I don't believe I
>am so out of place when I still will continue believing that the Greenline
>is not plastic. If it was plastic, what's the point in Buffet putting all
>that dumb wood in it if no one is willing to accept that there is wood
there
>and lots of it.

I had gotten into this once before, but will restate my view. I've never
even
*seen* a Greenline, but common sense says that sawdust, whether fine or
coarse, will not magically bond to itself and make a solid material which
could be machined to become a clarinet. Whatever plastic materials are used
must form a continuous phase, in which the wood particles are contained.
Thus, you have a plastic clarinet which contains large amounts of wood
particles as inclusions.

I don't know what Buffet's point is in "putting all that dumb wood in it"
either, but I go along with the thinking that claims the quality of the
Greenline is the result of the workmanship and dimensions. Whether it is
wood or plastic is irrelevant.

Don Yungkurth (clarinet@-----.net)

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