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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2016-01-03 00:16
Y'all know these clarinet jokes: "how many clarinets must be set afire to melt a flute" etc - but has anyone actually tried to burn that wood? Would it burn at all?
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Ben
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2016-01-03 00:18
I don't know about grenadilla, but a rubber clarinet would really really stink. And anywhere it's illegal to burn tires, the law ought to mention clarinets.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-01-03 03:31
I reckon grenadilla will burn very well due to it being dense and containing a fair amount of resin, but it won't just catch fire if you try to light it with a match or lighter - get a fire going in the normal manner and once it's established, put grenadilla billets or clarinet joints on it as you'd do with larger logs.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Luuk ★2017
Date: 2016-01-04 16:49
Yes, it burns. With a smokey flame.
I visited the Leblanc factory in mid- '90's and got some 'educational' scrap, parts with faults. After 15 years I decided to give it a try, sacrificing an upper Bb part without holes and a bell with white spots by putting them in my woodstove with glass window. The fire was so bad I decided to keep the other parts for some more years.
Since the raw wood had square profiles lots of shavings were produced. I seem to remember that the factory used to heat itself by burning the chips and shavings (no pun intended).
Regards,
Luuk
Philips Symphonic Band
The Netherlands
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2016-01-04 19:20
It is no disputed matter that the Buffet factory was heated in the winter by the left over pieces of grenadilla that resulted from clarinet production.
I don't know if such heat production remains to be the case, if for no other reason that these extra wood scraps (to some degree I am unaware of percentage wise) are used for the creation of the Greenline models of instruments.
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2016-01-05 21:06
Sounds like the discussion of whether the heat content of dollar bills (when burned) might be greater than the heat content of the fuel that can be purchased by those same dollar bills. Given enough inflation, "money to burn" could actually be the wisest choice. Probably illegal, though.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-01-05 21:20
Before the serial numbers were engraved on the CNC machine at Howarth, they were stamped into the joints with individual number (and letter) punches that were heated in a Bunsen burner flame. The smell of burning grenadilla varied from a sweet honey-like fragrance through to incense and sometimes it was absolutely rank.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: MichaelW
Date: 2016-01-05 21:51
Attachment: Inflation.jpg (105k)
A propos smoking pipe: Some years ago I ended it, mainly for health reasons, gave (irresponsibly) the best of my tobacco pipes to a good friend and burned the rest in our kitchen stove. They are made from bruyere, the very dense root wood of erica arborea. So, of course, you can't light them with a match, but while they have tolerated internal fire for years, they burn happily to ashes on a pile of firewood.
Reichsmark bills, in 1923, when one Dollar's worth went up to more than 1000 Billion Reichsmark, were, seemingly, rather used as wallpaper (picture from Wikipedia) than as fuel.
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