Klarinet Archive - Posting 000909.txt from 1997/12

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Leaving it assembled
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:22:48 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 21, 1997 5:18 PM
Subject: Leaving it assembled

>All:
>
>What are your main reasons for shying away from leaving the
>instrument assembled, standing on the peg, between practice
>sessions (swabbing out thoroughly after playing, of course)?
>The main ones which come to mind are:
>
>Neil Leupold

Neil, I leave mine assembled often, more out of laziness than anything else.
I do find that the corks tend to stick, possibly because we let the temp in
our house drop to about 62 degrees overnight. Maybe the cork grease just
gets gummy. From what I've been able to see, cork compression is the main
risk, but it hasn't been enough of a problem to make me pack it up every
night.

Karl