Klarinet Archive - Posting 000900.txt from 1997/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Float Test and cologne/Koln
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:47:15 -0400

Does anyone else know Coleridge's poem about the above-mentioned city? (Re
"eau de" and "odour"...).
Roger Shilcock (lending librarian's high literary tone)
Seriously, though - you'd have to take all the keys off before even
thinking about it.

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Frederik Coene wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:47:14 -0500
> From: Frederik Coene <29967@-----.be>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: starrs@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Float Test
>
> >> I'm looking at a clarinet to purchase for my daughter. It's been in
> >> storage for several years, and the person selling it doesn't know if
> >> it's wood or plastic. A friend of mine who has had experience with this
> >> sort of thing says that if I float the clarinet in a bathtub of water it
> >> will designate whether it's made of wood or plastic, the wood type
> >> floating higher and longer. My question to you is, does it matter how
> >> many inches of water there are in the tub, and is the temperature of the
> >> water crucial to the float?
> >> Thanks,
> >> Carol
> >
> >You've got to be kidding.
> >Please tell me you are kidding.
> >You are kidding, aren't you?
> >
> >Starr
>
> Someone even told me to get a better sound, you have to put your clarinet
> one day in a bath of "Eau de Cologne". :-)))
>
> Frederik
>
>
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