Author: Nissen
Date: 2004-08-30 08:39
The problem with making staples in wood or plastic only, is that the ellipse is impossible to manufacture, and the thickness required at the tie-on end of the staple should be about 0.25 mm. Even dense wood will soon break and plastic, unless carbon reinforced, will bend or compress.
An ellipse can be included in a plastic moulded version, but this is extremely expensive, unless you know you can sell 10.000 pieces of them afterwards. And you still have the problem with missing stiffness at 0.25 mm.
As part of my investigations in the development of the Nissen Tubes, I had a complete dense plastic staple made (no metal inside), similar in density to the plastic used in woodwind instruments. This was horrible to play, the sound lacked everything we love about the oboe sound, regardless of 'school' (American/European).
We need the metal somehow, and it is not irrelevant what kind it is. Lately I tried some Pisoni staples. The metal looked odd, like black brass or something. They performed well 'register-wise', like other staples, but the tone quality was bad, kind of cold and 'glassy'.
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