Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 1997/04

From: Bob <laker29@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Nail polish -on reed butt not label side
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:56:36 -0400

Dave:
GOOD GREIF - I have sent you private E-mail about my Experience about
some of this!
I don't know about Fernando"s methods, but He's talking about the bottom
end "BUTT" of the reed!!
You're not going to have any Problem with that in you're mouth - like our
good contact in Kansas City has said!! SEAL off the butt?? that's the
other possible place that the TUBES can get water! Not a bad idea! Try it
or not! You're choice!

Hey! DAVE - WOULD YOU PLEASE - maybe try what were talking about before you
Blast any of us again!? You might find some of this might help YOU!
ME - Lover of Clarinet & trying only to pass along to Klarinet
what I know to WORK!! (for me at least for 30+ years)
Cheers!! Bob Lake <laker29@-----.net>

At 2:04 AM 4/8/97, WWQUINTET@-----.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 97-04-08 01:09:16 EDT, reedman@-----.
>Blumberg) writes:
>
><< e-mailed Fernando, and he spoke of the reed butt, not the bottom of the
> reed as written to put the nail polish on.
> >>
>That's interesting. It's a well known phenomenon that if you place the butt
>end of a reed into a lukewarm glass of water, that the process of osmosis
>will transport water through the vessels in the reed and up into the inner
>structure of the cane. I'm then assuming that nail polish will strengthen the
>reed by coating the inner vessels as it moves inside the reed in a similar
>fashion. Of course, I'm merely guessing. We'll have to wait for Fernando's
>complete methodology. Though, the idea of even the remote possibility of a
>sticky substance like nail polish flaking off inside the clarinet makes me a
>tad squeamish. I believe I'll stay with the traditional procedures. :-)
>
>Dave

Bob Lake
Musician/Educator
Edina, MN
<laker29@-----.net>