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RE: The Dark Side of the Clarinet

Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-07-06 18:05

Hmm...I'm a horror writer and horror movie critic. Clarinet was my first wind instrument. Wonder if there's a connection? ;-)

Someone asked about the red "spots" in clarinet wood. That's just the natural color, the way the tree develops, due to the amount of moisture and average temperature changing from year to year and to the chemical content of the soil where the wood grows. Most of the different types of "grenadilla" wood used in clarinets are naturally streaky this way. Wood that's naturally solid jet black *and* large enough to make a clarinet is very rare today, since cocus and most of the other types of ebony that used to be used are endangered now.

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