Klarinet Archive - Posting 000404.txt from 1997/04

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Pad Savers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 08:58:39 -0400

Karl Krelove wrote:
> I'm anxious as well to see any reactions to these based on actual
> experience - especially from the guys on the list who do a lot of repair
> work. My intuitive reaction to Pad Savers has always been that it would
> retain moisture inside the instrument that would otherwise have just
> evaporated, thus encouraging unnaturally rapid pad deterioration and maybe
> molds and other flora growing inside the instrument (as well as in the Pad
> Saver itself). Does anyone really know what the risks/benefits of these
> things are?

I noticed that one of the other firsts on the band used padsavers and I
asked him about it (since my reaction to them was basically the same
as yours). His experience with them has been good - but he uses them
for a slightly different reason. He makes sure he's dried his
clarinet really well (emphasis on really), then uses those because he
figures that little bit of water will help maintain the
humidity in the case without costing as much as a "real" humidifier.
Of course, by trade he is really an oboe player, so one could argue that
he is not entirely to be trusted :-)! He did tell me that he has
seen some really nasty results when some of his students tried to use
them - the kids weren't getting their instruments dry enough (or even
worse, assuming that they didn't have to swab out the clarinet
anymore) and the predicatable disasters resulted.
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
2105 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64124
email: dikarius@-----.EDU

   
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