Klarinet Archive - Posting 000818.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solid Aluminum Clarinets?
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 00:48:19 -0400

At 11:29 AM 9/22/98 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>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.
>
I just had a thought. By milling most of the body of an aluminum alloy
clarinet to have "fins" similar to the DEG Accubore barrel, you could
probably reduce the weight sufficiently to make it close to wood. What you
lost in esthetics would be made up in weight savings.

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