Klarinet Archive - Posting 000522.txt from 1997/06

From: Bill Edinger <wde1@-----.edu>
Subj: on- and off-topic
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:15:30 -0400

On-topic: "Fur-brained" is probably a generous assessment of the merit
of storing your clarinet in the freezer to save the pads. You'd dry
out the wood, and probably crack it in half a dozen places; the glue on
the pads would freeze and separate, so they'd fall out and have to be
reinstalled; the corks would suffer a similar fate; and even if none of
the above happened, the cold, dense block of wood would be covered with
condensation while warming up and make the pads soggy, which is what
you wanted to avoid in the first place. Or you could use a commercial
freeze-drier, which sublimates the moisture under vacuum, like hiking
foods. Then the wood would be so dry it would have to be oiled, and
that would probably mess up the pads, too, by the time you were
finished. This isn't bad medicine, it's straight poison.

Off-topic: Dan Leeson wrote: "<fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>You
know what they say: everyone on the earth is related to everyone else
by a maximum of five degrees of separation." Now I know how that movie
got its name! But how do you define a "degree of separation?"

=46inally: I'm moving from upstate New York to Fresno, California, in a
few weeks, and am very concerned about what the climate change will do
to my instrument. I most certainly will not let it go on the moving
van (where it will probably reach 150=B0F at some point), but I'm
concerned about what others have posted about moving to Texas (I think
it was El Paso?). Will a humidifier in the case be required forever
now? Help!

Bill Edinger (no relation to Einstein either)</fontfamily>

   
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