Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 1998/10

From: "Jim O'Briant" <jobriant@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:35:32 -0400

James P Reed wrote, in part:

> Anyways, the idea of a metal clarinet came to me from something I can't
> find and may really have wrong in my memory. ... . Plus, I like the idea of the social value tradeoffs between metal, wood, and
> resonite that a kid would be faced with.

Environmental and social issues of that sort would have occurred to some elementary school age children in the late 1960's, but for
such a consideration to matter to a child ten years earlier (unless a truly exceptional and very unusual child) would be an
anachronism. The concept of chemistry and man-made materials having an impact on the world at large really came to the fore only with
the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." I think that was published about 1960 -- I read it in high school in 1964.

Jim O'Briant
Bayside Music Press
Gilroy, CA
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