From a message on Klarinet-list on the material we use to make clarinets:
>From: "Steven J Goldman, MD" <sjgoldman@email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: klarinet@sneezy.org
>To: klarinet@sneezy.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Wood/plastic, etc...
>
> African blackwood is becoming scarce and more expensive. This should make
>it necessary to switch to man made material; however, the psychological
>allure of wood is probably too overwhelming (just review the posts over the
>years). There is apparently a huge supply of hardwoods in Australia that is
>probably of instrument quality but it is mostly just used as firewood now.
>The Australian Government is studying the possible use of these woods as a
>replacement for the endangered hardwoods currently in use. So plastic may
>never achieve the status it is capable of.
Long ago, in Mozart's time and perhaps early 19th century, clarinets were
made of boxwood. Then people switched to African blackwood. Very rarely one
can find clarinet made by ebony or other wood. Perhaps clarinetists should
feel guilty for killing trees. Especially when then buy clarinets but do
not practice hard.... Or abuse them, of course.
At least connect your clarinets and put them on a shelf, it's a nice
creature to put in a museum several hundreds years later, when there is
no African blackwood.
Yi
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