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Re: Ebonite vs. ABS

Author: Kalashnikirby
Date: 2018-02-22 00:16

Thanks for the influx of posts and sheer amount of knowledge on this topic.
As hinted by others, my aim was not to find out which of the materials was more sustainable - and we certainly shouldn't be deluded by those claims of ebonite cointaining "natural rubber" that this is a synthetic material - but to understand the differences and reasons as to why they're not used on top instruments.
That being said, current developments in the clarinet industry however do not at all hint towards a (IMHO eventually) necessary substitute for grenadilla. Buffet's greenline concept only arised from the idea of processing grenadilla chips. Relative to the big names, Ridenour and some other synthetic instruments still dwell in total unimportance. Here in Germany, no instrument builder of renown would even consider the idea of making their instruments with something other than grenadilla (expect for offering even rarer tone woods).
The Vito alto still sounded nice, despite probably being a cheap, inaccurately casted instrument, as the bore is very rough.... all I'm hoping for is for Buffet or Yamaha to take one of their high end models bore concepts and transform it into a really good synthetic clarinet.
But as a musician told me when he toured in China, a large clientele there would avoid buying instruments that were "too cheap", simply because of the notion that these could not be real professional instruments.

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