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RE: a wood clarinet question

Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-12 02:11

David Kinder wrote:
>
> Sorry Dee,
>
> Buffet R-13 Greenlines aren't plastic... yet they have many
> plastic characteristics. NEVER need bore oil, 3 year warrantee
> against body defects, and they don't fluctuate their tone in
> weather.
>
> Greenlines are made out of the wood "sawdust" and molded with
> some plastic component(?) to form and shape the wood billets.
> They are quality instruments, but I prefer the wood grain in
> the bore to help with the characteristics of the tone of that
> particular instrument.
>
> Just my $0.02 worth.

Sorry David but it is a "filled" plastic and the filler happens to be sawdust. The fact that it is sawdust instead of something else or totally unfilled is simply an advertising ploy on Buffet's part to get people to accept something other than wood for pro instrument. Actually I hope they are successful so that other makers eventually bring forth pro horns of composites and/or plastics. This has been discussed many times on the bulletin board before.

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