Klarinet Archive - Posting 000200.txt from 1993/12

From: Jay Heiser <jayh@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: cyrogenics
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 10:33:17 -0500

At least one vendor is selling cyrogenically treated guitar strings now,
claiming superior resonance and long life. I can accept that this is possible,
but I'd really like to compare the same strings before the treatment before
I'm convinced that the effect is beneficial.

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1993
-->Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 08:59:23 EST
-->Reply-To: Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network
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-->Sender: Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network
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-->From: "Dr. Ronald P. Monsen" <RPMONS00@-----.EDU>
-->Subject: Re: The Wooden Clarinet
-->To: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
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-->In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
--> 10 Dec 1993 15:34:44 -0800 from <leeson@-----.EDU>
-->Message-ID: <9312130606.aa23126@-----.COM>
-->
-->I have heard of this homogonization when a student of Stowell. I believe
-->he also performed this miracle on flutes using a vibrator to get things
-->all going in the same direction. I will have to check with our flute
-->professor. I do remember discussing this at length with him and prof.oboe
-->on a quintet tour a few years back. There is a gentleman now working who
-->"freezes" brass bodied instruments. Cryogenics I believe--some of the
-->t`bone and horn players here have had this done. I even believe one of
-->the saxophone majors had his tenor "frozen". I am not making this up-
-->Ron Monsen.
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more severe the case, the less likely the narcissist
is to even be aware of what's happening.

   
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