Originally Posted by
JTJ
The words "synthetically blended" don't make sense to me in that context. Being a bit cynical, I think it probably was something marketing thought up.
I still use Yamaha synthetic. But I would use Blue Juice if it did not strongly smell of jet fuel to me. I know to some it ha no smell -- wish I was one of those people.
Yup -- clearly marketing hype/distortion in an attempt to prevent a part of their market from fleeing to synthetic products.
"Synthetically blended" is particularly humorous because what it literally states is that the blending process (and not the product) is synthetic. Since blending is indeed an act of "synthesis" in the literal sense of this term, the statement that the product is "synthetically blended" is a tautology -- equivalent to saying that it's a "blended blend" .
Sorry ... for most of my adult life I've been a professional logician in one capacity or another. Just can't resist when I see things like this. They make great examples in courses in logic or argument.
The product, for many people, seems to be great. Over the past few years I've switched to the (genuinely) synthetic Yamaha oils since they seem to work the best for me. I continue to believe that performance of valve oils is at least in part a matter of the body chemistry of the player -- whether the oil is "natural" or "synthetic".
Gary Merrill
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