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Re: Ebonite vs. ABS

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-02-22 02:15

No one can read the future. Remember that there was a time when boxwood was the preferred material for flutes and clarinets. No so today. And Mozart's and Brahms' clarinetists rode from one concert to another on horseback or in horse drawn carriages. Not so today. I would not discount rubber as a serious material for clarinets even at the highest pro level. And let's not forget Backun's latest CG wood clarinet clad in carbon fiber. Yo-Yo Ma has a cello made mostly of carbon fiber, and he and it are certainly serious world class.

Many people are looking at what 3D printing might soon make possible, and Brad Behn, the excellent mouthpiece maker and reed designer, has been working with some prototypes for a clarinet that he intends eventually to produce in rubber.

Thirty years from now or less, clarinetists may be traveling from job to job in autonomously driven electrical and fuel cell vehicles powered by photovoltaic energy sources, and their instruments may be made of rubber, carbon fiber, or even some metal alloy if flute makers decide to leap into the market.

Players then may laugh and say "remember when we all played those wooden things? And had to drive cars that spewed carbon monoxide?"

Who knows?

Post Edited (2018-02-22 02:41)

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