Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 1998/02

From: lanewhite@-----.com (Lane G White)
Subj: Re: Dis/Advantages to the Double Neck
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:52:13 -0500

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 01:04:59 +0800 "Loh Tzu Liang" <tlloh@-----.sg>
writes:
>>Spit valves are not very effective.
>
>Yup! I used to see the bari sax player hving trouble with it..The
>barrel is
>just too thick so blowing air has limitations in forcing the water
>out.

In my experience with bari, the, uh, fluids don't want to come out until
there's about a gallon or so to provide enough hydraulic pressure to
break the surface tension. It seems to prefer to come out of my pads and
onto my pants leg.