Klarinet Archive - Posting 000826.txt from 1997/04

From: Lee Cooper <ccooper@-----.us>
Subj: RE: softening new swab
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:37:46 -0400

I've got to agree! I've been using an oblong, bladder shaped silk swab
from Int'l Music for about the last 5 years, and I've got no complaints.
It never gets stuck, and it's plenty soft!

Later,
Lee

>Peter--
>
>Like others who have responded, I recommend a silk swab. For the last six
>years or so I've been using swabs I think originally made/marketed by
>someone in the Coppenbarger family (Brent?). They come in absolutely wild
>colors and patterns (leopard skin, anyone? hot crimson?), and used
>appropriately can rouse even the most torpid audience from its slumber.
> I've been buying them from Lisa at Int. Music Supplies; I think Lisa is
>now marketing them under her own brand name.
>
>Gary Young
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>----------
>From: peter.stoll@-----.ca]
>Sent: Sunday, April 27, 1997 7:16 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.us
>Subject: softening new swab
>
>I've been "breaking in" (or at least trying to) a new Buffet swab; it
>seems incredibly thick/tough and is hard to pull through the bore. I've
>tried washing it by hand several times to soften it up, but no luck. Any
>ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter (peter.stoll@-----.ca)

--
Lee Cooper ccooper@-----.us
http://pen.k12.va.us/~ccooper/home.shtml

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind
that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
Albert Einstein [in speaking about his theory of relativity].