Klarinet Archive - Posting 000322.txt from 1994/10

From: Kathy Carr <kcarr@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Pot Pourri
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 16:49:33 -0400

On Mon, 24 Oct 1994, GILLMAN wrote:

> I have two questions...
>
> 1) My roomate lent me his clarinet in A for my conducting class. (we're
> conducting/playing Haydn 104, and I also want to use it for my Senior
Recital.)
> Both the case and instrument are rather old, and the case smells of an attic.
> last week when I played it, I had an allergic reaction to the case. (The
> clarinet is fine if left out of the case for a few hours.) Somebody at school
> suggested that it might be mold or some such thing that caused this problem.
> Does any one have any suggestions for fumigating an otherwise perfectly good
> case without damaging a beautiful instrument? (It's a limited edition Buffet
> made out of some wood that is not Grenadilla.)

I have a c-melody sax case that had the same problem...too long in
an attic. The man that restored the sax said the best thing for
"airing out" the case was to leave it open in direct sunlight (best
if you can leave it outdoors). It worked for my sax case.

Kathy Carr
UW Seattle