Klarinet Archive - Posting 000796.txt from 1998/09

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solid Aluminum Clarinets?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:29:15 -0400

On 22 Sep 1998 17:21:30 -0000, "Chuck Trimble CPA" <trimble@-----.net> wrote:
>i believe aluminum alloy is generally lighter than genadilla is it not?
>chuck trimble

That would also have been my guess, but I'm wrong so often that I decided to
check.

According to the African Blackwood Conservation Project web page, mpingo has a
density of 1200 kg/m3. According to a high school chemistry test I found on
another web page, aluminum has a density of 2.7 g/cm3. If my adjustment of the
units is correct, that makes the mpingo at 1.2 g/cm3 less than half as dense as
aluminum.

I'm surprised.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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