Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1996/11

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Water, the odd sound and the blowing clarinetist!
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 03:53:03 -0500

>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.

Freeze the clarinet to -300F.
Put it in a zip-lock plastic bag under vacuum.
Send check or money order for $500 US to:

Cry-O-Babies
Musical Instrument Abuse Department
P.O. Box 345.2
Isles of Langerhans

Seriously, though, there was an extensive discussion on this just recently.
If you can access the archives, there was some interesting advice!

(Just a thought: perhaps we should capitalize The Archives - it makes it
sound so much more all-knowing and powerful! Or come up with a euphenism:
The One Who Remembers All???)

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410)-955-3631

SDM@-----.edu