Klarinet Archive - Posting 000188.txt from 1997/02

From: "Jenny M. Cornell" <jcornel@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: protecting cl.from the cold
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:47:38 -0500

I remember one time in Junior High my band director preached about taking
your insturment from one extreme temperature to another. He told us to
avoid the problem at all costs. Some how he talked about that subject for
the whole band hour. He went into details how if you had your horn in a
cold car and you take it into the warm house. He said to start off with
putting the horn in a cool room. Then move it to a warmer room, etc. In
other words he didn't want us to take the horn from a cold car and go put
it in a 450 degree oven to warm it up. Funny as it may sound, I think a
band student actually did this and he felt it necessary to tell the rest
of us how bad that is for the horn. (Do you think so?)
jenny

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