Klarinet Archive - Posting 000252.txt from 1997/11

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #391
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:18:35 -0500

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.13
> Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V1 #391

>
> <<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.

"Probably"??? "PROBABLY"??? Is this what we have come to? The
reason why bassoons "probably last longer" ...

We are speaking about one of the most questionable elements of
the folklore of clarinets and, while my challenge to lack of
bassoon blow out may not be correct, neither I nor any curious
investigator of this problem is not going to be satisfied by
the probable cause of an event. And, in any event, the argument
that I was addressing was not the assertion that moisture created
the blow out problem, but that swabbing created it. Balkalite,
shmalkalite, they swab too.

I am probably going to sleep now. My head hurts from all this
confusion. Would someone send me some asperin along with a
good reed? Thank you.

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
Rosanne Leeson, Los Altos, California
leeson@-----.edu
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