Klarinet Archive - Posting 000727.txt from 2000/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plastic vs. Wood
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:44:29 -0400

At 09:09 AM 8/23/2000 -0400, Les DeBusk wrote:
>I think the Buffet Green Line clarinets are a mixture of very fine sawdust of
>grenadilla wood/epoxy resin not just plastic .... right?
>
Technically a "filled" plastic, in this case filled with sawdust, but still
by definition a plastic -- in this case an excellent and
environmentally-conscious plastic substitute for wood. But if a clarinet
were made of standard Bundy/Vito/Evette plastic to the exact same
specifications and with the exact same care as a standard or Greenline
R-13, would it play the same? Sometimes it almost seems that the
manufacturers may be afraid of the results, and thus are unwilling to
perform the experiment, or at least they keep it all TOP SECRET!!

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