Klarinet Archive - Posting 000761.txt from 2003/08

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Falling in love with wood.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:18:24 -0400

At 01:18 PM 8/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Think positively Ken. You might fall in love with some high density
>composite clarinet which would cost a fraction of the traditional Mpingo
>variety. Ah, well, impossible dreams. Let's just say that it COULD happen.
>
>Oliver

Home again.

At the risk of exposing my total ignorance of materials, IS there such a
thing as a synthetic or composite clarinet? I know about the
Greenline...grenadilla fragments bound with epoxy...and of course there are
ABS clarinets. I am aware Selmer sells a bassoon made of ABS or some other
non-organic material. But has anyone ever seriously considered a clarinet
made of, say, ceramic material? A man in Illinois named Michael Burke
makes wonderful Irish whistles. By trade he is or was an aircraft
engineer, so the instruments are made of brass, aluminum, and a kind of
ceramic called "composite." I own one of them. It sounds like a flute and
weighs next to nothing. Would such things work with heavily keyed
instrument like a clarinet?

Ken

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