Klarinet Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 1996/11

From: Peter Stoll <peter.stoll@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: Water, the odd sound and the blowing clarinetist! (fwd)
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:37:59 -0500

What do Klarinetters feel about the old saw that swabbing a clarinet many
times changes the bore and contributes to "playing out" an instrument?

Cheers,
P

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:35:21 -0500
From: John Blegen <blegen@-----.US>
Subject: Re: Water, the odd sound and the blowing clarinetist!

To paraphrase an election-day dictum popular here in Chicago, swab early
and often. Someone pointed out on this list that the purpose of pulling
the swab through the horn is not so much to dry it as to distribute the
moisture evenly so that it does not accumlate at the tone holes and cause
one to gurgle. Since I've heeded this principle, I haven't had the problem.

John
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Joerg Peltzer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> can someone give me an advice.
> Do you remember playing Mozart Concerto Adagio, you know the real
> pianissimo passage at the Reprise?
> Then suddenly..... (blub, pfffft, blblblblblblblblb.....), yes that aquatic
> sound when you have some water under your pads.
>
> Is there someone out there you has the Final Recipe, to prevent my clarinet
> from doing that.
> There are are always some favorite places where it occurs, is it a matter
> of temperature?
>
> At the moment i am using a spray called "Tone Woodwind - All Pad&Bore
> Formula", but I no longer believe in that stuff.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Ciao JP
>
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> -
> Joerg Peltzer Tel. (0451) 70 20 830 - Luebeck, Germany
> "Funk is, what you don't play" - Maceo Parker!
>