Klarinet Archive - Posting 000418.txt from 1997/08

From: Dick Damon <ddamon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Metal tendon caps
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 01:32:34 -0400

Edwin V. Lacy wrote:
>
> Just a point of clarification:
>
> There have been dozens of messages in recent days with the above subject
> line. Actually, what we are talking about here are "tenon" caps, not
> "tendon" caps. Tenon and tendon are two completely different words, with
> unrelated meanings. A "mortise and tenon" joint is one way to join two
> pieces of wood or other material. That is where the name originates.
>
> Ed Lacy
> EL2@-----.edu
Glad you said it. I have been wanting to ever since it started
springing up in this thread. Just read a book on Clarinets by a teacher
who keeps referring to the tendons. You probably will start a whole new
thread going about how the tendon is the sinew that keeps the two
sections of the clarinet together. Want to bet?
Best regards,
Dick Damon,
a high school clarinet player who just recently picked the clarinet back
up after 55 years of non-activity. Enjoying summer band and a woodwind
quartet.