Klarinet Archive - Posting 000755.txt from 1998/09

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Grow grenadilla? (Was Re: [kl] Reed Cane in MD)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 19:05:29 -0400

I think that recycling is a good thing. Forcing Buffet to share the
technology is not . . . I'm sure if Selmer wants a license, they can get it
at a fair price.

The Greenline is made of very expensive plywood--wood bits floating in
polymer. I'm not convinced that the wood bits are necessary. My wife plays
a Loree oboe with an ABS plastic top joint; it cost her a couple of hundred
bucks *more* than an all-wood oboe would have at the time. Neither she nor
I can hear any difference in sound between it and a more traditional wood
oboe.

I would buy an all-plastic artist clarinet, if one were made to the same
standards.

kjf

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Hsien [mailto:jasonavhs@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Grow grenadilla? (Was Re: [kl] Reed Cane in MD)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
:It seems to me that the real answer is to eliminate the unjustified
prejudice
:against plastic, thus encouraging manufacturers to produce plastic horns
with
:the same care and precision applied to wood instruments

Though this may seem like I'm endorsing Buffet (and though I am an avid fan
of their horns, I promise you I'm not), I really think folks should give
Recycled Grenadilla (Greenline) a chance, and that Buffet should also share
the technology with it's competitors.

Recycled Grenadilla Clarinets have the comfort, care and sound of a wooden
clarinet as well as the durability of plastic. It's not using new trees,
because it's recycled wood and wasted wood.

Considering how difficult and long it takes Grenadilla, African Blackwood,
etc..., I seems to me that Recycling the grenadilla already out there is the
next step. There are plenty of unused clarinets, and I'm sure that some are
put away and never seen again. Others are simply unplayable because there is
too much damage. But the wood can still be salvaged, since it's ground up.

Am I the only one who sees it this way?

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