Klarinet Archive - Posting 000668.txt from 2000/08

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plastic vs. Wood
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 05:34:40 -0400

It seems likely that wood is used because it isn't metal, historically
speaking - you don't actually want resonances from the material if you're
making an instrument which is meant to have a scale, rather than produce
hunting calls or fanfares.
The Buffet "Greenline" models are plastic, in the most general sense of
the term. A closer comparison might be between the wood and plastic
Howarth instruments - I haven't seen any such comparisons on the list upt
to now, though.
Yours,
Roger S.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, les debusk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:36:14 -0400
> From: les debusk <sflane@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: "klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] Plastic vs. Wood
>
>
> What is the difference? Is it not the material but the design and
> components that make the sound correct? Or is there another side to the
> story? If you made a clarinet identical (size,bore,ring size,key
> position,ect..) to a, lets say, Buffet R-13 out of a heavy plastic would
> you not get the same tone and sound? In many ways i dont think so. But
> thinking about it, wood warps and cracks. Plastic doesn't. And many
> clarinet players often play with a barrel made of a sort of plastic
> because most of the time the wooden barrel has to be replaced every few
> years due to the change of the roundness and because it warps. Another
> question to this story is..... Does wood resonate more than a heavy
> plastic? And does the thickness and weight play into the sound
> production? In other words i know there has to an acoustic reason for
> wood. If there wasn't they could be made out of anything sturdy enough,
> true?
> Thank you,
> Les DeBusk
>
>
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