Klarinet Archive - Posting 000183.txt from 1998/01

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: too long, maybe, but not mindless (I hope)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:17:48 -0500

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Edinger/Gilman wrote:

> "The same thing with a swab - the swab cloth in and of itself will not -
> cannot - wear down anything harder than itself. Contaminated with dirt
> and dust - it might."

That is, if we ignore the friction as an abrasive "accelerant" so to
speak. Heat, no matter how little heat, generated by friction on a hard
rubber mouthpiece, combined with the action of a material pulled across
its surface, is going to affect the condition of the hard rubber. To what
degree it does is up for argument. That it is affected is difficult to
argue against.

Roger Garrett
IWU