Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 1997/09

From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Subj: [Fwd: "cure" for ligature allergies :-)]
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 13:07:52 -0400

Diane Karius, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> There is a wonderful essay regarding a cure for musical metal
> allergies at:
>
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mshanemcl/allergie.htm
>
> I stumbled on it while looking for something entirely different- it
> seemed too good to pass up after the recent thread regarding
> allergies to the various metals on the clarinet. Clarinetists would
> have the advantage that our ligatures fit in a microwave oven,
> allowing us to take advantage of the "time-saver"...
>
> diane k.

Diane,
Oreogenic Duracreme it is. Mine is in the oven even as we speak. Do you
think the entire orchestra looked like Little Orphan Annie?
Carol