Klarinet Archive - Posting 000634.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [[kl] Wood Technology]
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:41:33 -0400

At 06:17 PM 9/17/98 -0400, Mark Charette wrote:
>>Would it be better to get a clarinet with unstained wood? Could the
>reality be that the wood is freer of defects because it was chosen with
>the thought that the wood was not going to be covered up with stain, so
>the wood had to be at least cosmetically flaw free? Maybe that is the
>reason The Prestige and the Opus are UNSTAINED wood...go figure.
>
>
>An unstained Festival with nice, dense grain cracked catastrophically on
>my son. Cosmetically "flaw free" didn't help us there.
>----
No, but it IS pretty, isn't it?

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