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 Re: Why arent plastic clarinets made with wooden dimensions?
Author: L. Omar Henderson 
Date:   2008-04-08 11:12

(Disclaimer - I am maker of Forte' Bb plastic, wooden C clarinets, and mouthpieces and barrels)

Just a bunch of facts and observations with little in the way of value judgments - make your own conclusions or do your own testing:

As a seller of both plastic and wooden clarinets and the person paying the manufacturing bills I can say that at present the cost of material to make a clarinet is not greatly different for quality plastic, quality hard rubber, and aged Grenadilla wood. The cost is in manufacturing. Our own market research indicates, that at a similar price point, that the great majority of players prefer a wooden clarinet over plastic. This is the reason we are not making a plastic Forte' C clarinet. There is a wood bias.

As GBK points out I believe that the experiment has been done. For all intents and practical purposes the Buffet Greenline is a plastic instrument - advertising gimmickry aside for the attributes of plastic with a wood filler material (IMO).

In a different sound making venue - further up the tree (pardon the analogy) my own acoustical testing and research indicates that the type of material, in this case the formulation of the hard rubber, makes a difference in the sound qualities as measured by acoustical parameters, produced by barrels and mouthpieces made of different formulations of hard rubber, or wood. It is difficult however to put universally accepted and subjective terminology on differences in frequency spectrum analysis.

In terms of importance I ultimately believe that the player makes the greatest difference in sound produced followed in importance by the parts going downward to the clarinet body. Configuration of these parts (design), and manufacturing quality also play a huge part in their function.

As you can tell I am staying away from the potato fields !!
L. Omar Henderson
www.doctorsprod.com
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