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Re: Clarinets and Concrete

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2013-11-04 20:03

Paul "pewd" apparently knows this clarinet and its owner, so I accept his stastement that it's wood. But I also accept Bob Draznik's comment,

>>Since plastic bells are typically (these days) made by injection molding (both thermoplastic and thermoset varieties) they can contain "flow lines" that can mimic grain pattern in wood.>>

I know squadoosh about the business of manufacturing plastic, but I made the comment that I thought the broken bell looked like plastic because I've seen broken plastic and hard rubber clarinets and mouthpieces with sharp fracture lines and spikes similar to the ones in this photo.

This broken bell looks shinier and blacker than rubber, but I've got a vintage hard rubber Buffet eefer mouthpiece that shattered this way. The friendly dealer from whom I eventually bought the clarinet beat me to it by about a minute at the Georgetown flea market. The mouthpiece looked fine when he showed me his prize (he didn't actually do the Snoopy dance, but ...). My husband later saw him crawling around on the asphalt parking lot, picking up little pieces of something. When the victorious dealer sold me the same clarinet at the Civitan flea a few weeks later, the mouthpiece was a wreck, glued crookedly back together. It had broken into several sharply-pointed pieces, some missing forever; the dealer had filled in the gaps with glue!

Lelia
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