Klarinet Archive - Posting 000271.txt from 1995/07

From: "Robin C. Armbrister" <rcarmbri@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Help req re. stuck barrel
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:02:48 -0400

This might cause some people to gasp in horror but a tip for drying out a
swollen clarinet or other wooden instrument - I heard this from an oboe
player at music camp-is to store it for a
while with pieces of orange peel inside the case. Has anyone else heard
of this method? I've never tried it.

One summer my barrel wouldn't push in as far as it should've. My private
teacher wouldn't let
me do anything special to it until the dead of Winter - when the air is most
dry. Along about February, I noticed all of a sudden that the barrel would
move freely, or as freely as I needed it to :).

Robin C. Armbrister
Ph.D School Psychology Student
University of Tennessee, Knoxville