Klarinet Archive - Posting 000778.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Grow grenadilla? (Was Re: [kl] Reed Cane in MD)
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 05:43:55 -0400

At 09:42 AM 9/21/98 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>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. Of course, this
is a
>nearly unsolveable problem: manufacturers have no incentive to produce a
>plastic clarinet worth $2,000 until players are willing to pay for them, and
>players won't be willing to pay $2,000 for a plastic horn until
manufacturers
>produce one which is demonstrably worth it.
>
We now have the Greenline. It's a start!

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