Engineering

The Engineer’s Clarinet

Clarinets, Pipelines and Unforeseen Places: The Evolution of an Engineer by Grahame Campbell Grandamico Press, 2016, 529 pages, $32.99 _____________________________________ When I was seated next to Grahame Campbell at an Engineers Australia Fellows lunch last year, I knew nothing about his engineering life. A generation separated us, but gas prices were the talk of the nation and here was the man who had sat at the table for much of Australia’s modern gas history. But none of that was a conversation starter that day. No, Grahame and I got talking because I knew how clarinets worked and Grahame knew how…

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