Klarinet Archive - Posting 000711.txt from 2003/02

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Impingo Wood Supply for Clarinets
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 08:13:06 -0500

Dee Hays wrote,
>The ground grenadilla is merely an advertising ploy
> to get people to buy the instrument. That ground
>wood is completely coated by the resin to hold it
together. Thus if there is any "surface effect" as some
>propose, the surface is a synthetic not the wood.
>They could use anything for a filler for the resin and
>it wouldn't make any difference. However
>psychologically it makes the buyers feel good.
>
>Notice they don't say "sawdust" they say "ground
>grenadilla."

Yup. Any sawdust could be dyed black and the customer would never know the
difference. But there is one positive aspect to the use of grenadilla
sawdust: recycling. The manufacturing process for the regular R-13s must
generate a lot of waste chips and sawdust. Using it in Buffet's own
factory, as the filler for making more clarinets, is more energy-efficient
and probably also cheaper than sending the scrap to the dump or to a
recycler and then buying something else for filler. I'd like to see Buffet
and other companies make plastic student models with the company sawdust,
too, since the production of Greenlines probably doesn't come close to
using it all up.

Lelia Loban
lelialoban@-----.net
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