Klarinet Archive - Posting 000520.txt from 1998/08

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Buffet clarinet cracks
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:27:18 -0400

Oboes have much thinner walls than clarinets--at least in the top joint
where all the cracks are--and (it seems to me) more holes. My wife is an
oboe player; she went through so many Lorees that she now uses one with a
plastic top joint. Says it sounds just as good, and no heart attacks.

(FYI, the plastic top jointed Loree costs more!)

kjf

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Wolman [mailto:kwolman@-----.com]
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Buffet clarinet cracks

At 08:54 AM 8/18/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 8/18/98, arehow@-----.net writes:
>
>> I believe this is true, but a universal phenomenon, rather than a Buffet
>> problem. Loree oboes all are expected to crack (my new one in 1996 did
>> so after 8 weeks) wheras this was an unusual catastrophe in my youth.
>
>I've read the break-in procedures for oboes, but wonder if it could be
applied
>to clarinets, and other wood instruments to insure that there is no
cracking.

Are oboes more susceptible than clarinets to cracking? Would that account
for the detailed instructions on how to break in an oboe?

It might explain why many high-end oboes are made from plastics and
compound materials.

Ken

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