Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 1997/11

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #391
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:34:53 -0500

<<I would like to suggest that the
reason why bassoons do not blow out is because they are more
expensive and thus, technologically ill-understood phenomena like
blow out are not applied to it. For an instrument that costs
$2,000, blow out exists, but for an instrument that costs $20,000
it doesn't?>>

Nice try, Dan. The reason bassoons probably last longer is that the bore of
the first 1/2 is lined with balkalite, thus making it impermiable to
moisture.