Klarinet Archive - Posting 000767.txt from 2003/08

From: <reedman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Falling in love with wood.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:59:33 -0400

Kenneth Wolman writes:
> 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?

And then there is the Finnish company, previously mentioned on the list,
that is manufacturing a flute with a carbon fiber body, titanium keywork
and magnets in place of springs.

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