Material/Sound

From: Nelson Zink (zink@newmex.com)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 18:26:46 PST


Peter,

> An article that touches on many of these issues can be found at the
> Recorder web site: http://members.iinet.net.au/~nickl/wood.html
> The article talks about the different qualities of oils and techniques
> for oiling instruments.

Now we're talkin'!
 
>It is certainly true that different woods
> create different sounding recorders, and a well made wooden instrument
> sounds much better than the best quality plastic recorder.

Could you expound on this a little more? Acoustical texts display just as
much certainty in the opposite direction. What is it about this issue that
resists resolution?

Nelson



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