Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-06-01 23:46
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> However, I am afraid that in the realm of a well made
> instrument requiring lots of skilled man hours.......fine
> tuning so that 12ths work and such.......the cost is in the
> skilled labor NOT the material. I would be willing to spend
> $10,000 on a beautifully made, well in tune plastic clarinet,
> but it sounds like that is not what you have in mind.
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Hi Paul:
Thank you for your informed points as always. For the record, whether I could personally afford it or not, it would make me happy to see a well received/reviewed stable long lasting clarinet made of something other than wood, such as plastic, (my desire for greenness notwithstanding) in which its relatively high cost like that you cite was justified by things like the specialty of the plastic for acoustical or stability properties, the color, pitch and shape of its tone, and its workmanship/reliability. 
What I wonder about isn't whether such a thing could be made, but the backlash of consumers that might justifiably say, "you mean Buffet, et. al., all these years you could have made a great plastic instrument but instead helped make grenadilla all but extinct because you could sell instruments made of it at a higher markup than its cost to produce, that an even less expensive to produce, potentially greater dimensionally stable, extremely high quality plastic model?"
:)
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