Klarinet Archive - Posting 000719.txt from 1997/07
From: Dirk Kussin <dirk@-----.de> Subj: Cracking Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 05:21:29 -0400
Hello!
I read many articles in the list and the archive concerning cracking
of clarinets, and I was astonished, not to say shocked. I get the
impression that a huge amount even of high quality clarinets is
cracking, and I find this very unsatisfactory. In the moment I play a
plastic clarinet, but later I will upgrade to a top line instrument,
and I find it not funny to pay thousanfs of dollars in order to get a
broken horn. My questions:
1.) Can one estimate how big the amount of cracking clarinets is (in
percentage, approximately)?
2.) Do clarinets of highest quality wood less crack than cheaper
models? Reduce e. g. caps on tenons the probability to crack?
3.) Is there a "correct" way to treat a (new) clarinet in order to
keep the probabilty of cracking low? (Perhaps: Only to play a few
minutes at the beginning, oiling or not, the right
tempurature/humidity etc.) Or is the cracking pre-programmed in the
particular horn, and there is more or less nothing to do against it?
4.) Are e. g. the Buffet Green Line instruments a good alternative?
Sorry for the lots of question, but I find them important (and maybe
they are already answered in the archive). Thanks.
Greetings
Dirk
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Dirk Kussin dirk@-----.de
Fachbereich 17 Mathematik Raum D2.323
Universitdt-GH Paderborn Tel. (+49) (5251) 60-2636
D-33095 Paderborn --------- http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~dirk/
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