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 Re: repair broken greenline clarinet
Author: bbillings 
Date:   2014-02-17 23:30

Gordon,

Seems you know quite a bit about the chemical engineering of the products. There are certainly hazards to the chemical modification of any natural product for commercial use. I will note that there are far more long chain organics involved in the production of the ABS plastic. Particularly notable to me is benzene and its derivatives which are known carcinogens. Styrene and polystyrene I don't believe will biodegrade either. Sulfur has its challenges but I suspect jet fuel has a greater effect on acid rain than clarinet manufacture! :-)

With regard to my original line of thought, regardless of synthetic material, I believe a professionally keyed, acoustically very similar, and high quality synthetic bass clarinet can be produced much less expensively than a grenadilla one. Especially given the rarity of the source and the curing process involved in the production of wooden instruments. For an adult amateur of my skill and with my lack of professional aspirations it could be an ideal combination. So called student clarinets are made with durability being the primary focus since children and schools may not care for the instruments properly or afford the time and money to maintain the instrument. I, however, would be very pleased with an automatic double register set up and be willing to maintain it and am careful with my instruments. Further on that line of thought I have a hard time accepting that Greenline instruments are: A) as or more environmentally friendly given the binding agent for the wood dust and B) that it is equally costly to produce as the grenadilla units though the pricing is identical. Especially since I suspect they disposed of this dust in the past. This makes it difficult to accept as an alternative. Those are my thoughts and I'm certain I'm not alone in being put off by the cost of the Buffet Greenline instruments.

Good exchange!
Brian

PS - In response to CocoboloKid, my concerns about Chinese products have more to do with politics and financial support for China than they really do with quality. With regard to quality, mainland China is supposedly improving but Taiwain is still the preferred manufacturing point to my understanding though losing favor due to their higher labor rate. Regardless, my experience is that you can choose as high quality product as you are willing to pay for in Taiwan. Mostly, they are financial decisions that limit the quality.
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