Klarinet Archive - Posting 000023.txt from 2007/02

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] E11
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:37:01 -0500

Composite !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Shertzer" <shertzhg@-----.edu>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 4:16 PM
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
>
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