Klarinet Archive - Posting 000244.txt from 1997/04

From: Fernando Silveira <fersilv@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Reed Contradictions
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:56:15 -0400

I have no notice of somebody sick or died because it. I have been
working on that way for 2 years and nothing happened.
Do you mean about pesticide puted on the cane?? I think if the
pesticide never kill anybody, nail polish shouldn't do that.

Regards

Fernando

At 20:41 07/04/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-04-07 11:06:27 EDT, write:
>
><< but reeds sealed with
> nail polish puted on the back of the reeds. The result was: on the new reeds
> nothing change but on the used reeds the density, on the sealed reeds lost
> only 10%(at least) of density and on the no sealed reeds lost 40%!!! >>
>
>Hmmm...are there any toxins in nail polish that we might not want to ingest?
>The reed is still a porous creature, and eventually trace elements of the
>polish will eventually bleed through to the other side. I'm also wondering
>what nail polish will do to pads if bits of it find their way into the bore
>of the instrument. Regardless, these are all very interesting ideas.
>
>Dave
>
>