Klarinet Archive - Posting 000636.txt from 1998/09

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [[kl] Wood Technology]
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 22:41:35 -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?

Oh yes! I wish both his horns were mine (but had the heft & keywork of
my Selmer 10G ... baby duck syndrome most probably, though :)

Mark C.

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