Klarinet Archive - Posting 000677.txt from 1999/07

From: David Mack Endres <endres@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] rocket science in clarinet design (was Re: Hack repairs)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:55:43 -0400

Keven Fay noted,
>
>I have no doubt that if you had given my Dad a "proper" development budget
>(say, about the same as the Saturn V rocket booster or a really fine nuclear
>missile) he and his buddies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory would come up
>with a clarinet that's really . . . interesting.

I thought that had been done by Benade, called the NX. I just recently
had the time to review the archived notes from Benade's talks and
there's some pretty good science behind *that* design.

Anyway, I thought the Saturn 5 and/or at least the Army's missles were
designed in Huntsville, AL at Redstone Arsenal (Werner von Braun, et. al).
Check out the Space Museum in Huntsville if you are ever in North
Alabama (or in Tennessee, south of Nashville, e.g. at the Spring Hill Saturn
plant...cars that is.. Hmm wonder why they didn't call them Saturn VI?
Maybe they wanted to convey a more economical image.).

Cheers
Mack
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