Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2004-12-02 19:34
Terry, you are right about Perspex (not 'Persepex') and Plexiglass being the same. In New Zealand nobody uses the term Plexiglas. We probably historically imported from UK.
I'd say the early Chinese clarinets were definitely not acrylic. They had ALL the characteristics of hard rubber - the smell when scraped or machined, the thermosetting properties, the rigidity, the brittleness, the change to green with age, and the slightly sulphurous smell (and taste) with age, kjkust like mouthpieces. Definitely not ABS, and definitely not polypropylene, whose properties are very different.
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