Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 1999/12

From: Bonnie Davis <bdskees@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Blackmaster reeds
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 20:38:46 -0500

Didn't someone on the list in South America (Brazil?)
do something along this line for his doctoral
dissertation within the past year?

--- Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.com> wrote:
>
> To those list members who have access to lab
> equipment and the expertise to
> use it, what kind of procedures could be used to
> actually document the
> causes of these changes? We've discussed reed
> warpage often and sometimes
> heatedly (with preparatory recipes to prevent it) ,
> but I'm not sure I
> remember a discussion of other changes that occur in
> the wood. I assume it
> would be possible to detect the presence of calcium
> and other mineral
> deposits among (or within) the reed fibers and to
> detect tiny changes in the
> actual dimensions or condition of the xylem and
> phloem tubes that comprise
> the wood's structure. My explanation above is pure
> intuition. I've always
> assumed physical evidence could be observed but
> never had access to
> equipment and wouldn't on my own know how to use it.
> Comments, anyone?
>

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