Klarinet Archive - Posting 000585.txt from 1996/04

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: checks?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:31:40 -0400

Cathleen Renee Orr wrote:
>
> Steve Prescott wrote:
> > John Spicknall, one of my colleagues at ISU, has a Prestige. The top
> > joint has numerous checks and I've already pinned a crack.
>
> Pardon my ignorance Steve, but what's a check? What's it look like?
> Where does it come from? (What does it eat?) I've never heard of
> anyone having a check in their clarinet.

Perhaps we need to spell it "Czech" to get the meaning ;&)

Anyway, if you hold up a piece of wood to a light and sight tangentially
you sometimes can see fissures running both parallel and perpendicular
to the grain, thus the word "check" or "checking" (square) . These
fissures start out being only a couple of wood fibers deep, and
hopefully stop there. Checking happens mostly on hard, dense woods
rather than soft woods.
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