Most modern clarinet bodies are made out of African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon). There are actually many different trees in the African blackwood genus, such as black cocus, Mozambique ebony, grenadilla, and East African ebony. It is this heavy, dark wood that gives clarinets their characteristic color.
Paul Ackerman. Paul Ackerman (February 18, 1908 â December 31, 1977) was an influential music journalist. Ackerman was born in New York, New York. From 1943 to 1973 he was the music editor of Billboard magazine. He wrote the liner notes to Harry Belafonte's 1958 album of folk ballads, Love is a Gentle Thing.
Boucher and Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, are on the opposite end of the political spectrum, they told reporters. Jeff Jones, a registered nurse who worked with Boucher at the Bowling Green Medical Center, described Paulâs attackerâs politics as âliberal.â âHe was active on social media and said some negative things about the Republican agenda,â Jones said of Boucher, a Bowling Green, Ky., citizen who lives in the same gated community as Paul.