Klarinet Archive - Posting 000957.txt from 1998/10

From: peter.stoll@-----.ca
Subj: Re: [kl] Ggod and average BffetR13's
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:24:11 -0400

On Wed, 21 Oct 1998 Dahs434567@-----.com wrote:

> ...I have been told that when the clarinets are cut
> from the block of wood the appearance of the sawdust and shavings tell of the
> density of the wood . The most dense supposedly become Prestige R13 clarinets.

My understanding from Francois Kloc last year was that they simply held up
each billet of wood to pick the denser ones to make the Prestige models...

Peter Stoll
Instructor, Univ.of Toronto

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