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Clarinet Wood

Author: Kurt
Date: 2000-01-29 22:26

I've been wondering. With the price and rarity of Grenedillia wood (not to mention the ecological remifications of using it), why are clarinets not made of some other sort of wood? Bassoons are made of maple I believe, why not clarinets. While shopping for basses recently the prices seem to really skyrocket when going from plastic (resonite) to wood (grenedillia). Not all this can be contributed to superiour keywork, etc (actually the lower level wood ones from Leblanc for example seemed to share the same keywork as the cheaper Vito.) Why not maple, oak or walnut?

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