Klarinet Archive - Posting 000515.txt from 1998/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: moisture in pads
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:22:24 -0500

At 01:42 PM 1/10/98 EST, you wrote:
>I've always taken a dollar bill to clean out my tone holes and pads. It
was a
>tip I got from my teacher. (Do $100 bills clean better?!? LOL) Sometimes
>if I'm poor with no money in my pocket, I use my silk swab. All these
methods
>sure beat blowing across the hole. I always got strange looks when i did
that
>from inexperienced clarinet players.
>Chris Hoffman
>
Of course $100 bills work better. For the same reason $2000 clarinets
sound better than $500 clarinets. :-) The inexperienced clarinetists
looked strangely at you BECAUSE they are inexperienced. If they were
experienced, they would know and use that trick themselves.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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