Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2007/02

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] E11
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:21:39 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Shertzer [mailto:shertzhg@-----.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 3:17 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] E11
>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:42 AM
> Subject: Buffet E11
>
>
> I recently bought a Buffet E11 C-clarinet. It is great and I love it.
> Although it is advertised as grenadilla wood, and has grain to the wood,
> The
> instructions with the instrument say never to oil the bore. A clarinet
> buddy
> told me that is because it is made like greenline, and is really some sort
> of composite, and oiling will weaken the glue that bonds the grenadilla
> fibers. On the plus side, such construction would render it insensitive to
> cold and moisture and cracks. I do play outdoor band concerts in crummy
> weather.
>
> So is the E11 a composite, or regular grenadilla wood construction?
>
> Howard
> Email shertzhg@-----.edu
>

This clarinet is constructed from wood. Buffet does not recommend oiling any
of their clarinets.

Forest Aten

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