Klarinet Archive - Posting 000866.txt from 1998/08

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] New Cl. Maintenance
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:14:19 -0400

In a message dated 8/29/98 7:14:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
fgarcia@-----.edu writes:

<< I have a friend who just bought a new pair of R-13s. He hasn't played in 15
or so years and has asked me questions about new clarinet maintenance. He
told me that the guy who sold him his instruments told him that he should
limit the time he plays on the instruments to a half an hour a day. >>

Frank,

There was a string earlier this summer about "breaking in" new clarinets, and
it turned out that many of us had been given varied advice about that.

I had been told by a good repair person when I bought my first new R-13 to
break it in slowly: Five minutes the first day, ten the next and so on, but
that after about two weeks I could play to my heart's content.

Since then, I've always taken the time to do this with any new horn, or any
new "used" horn that hasn't been played for many years. I figure it can't
hurt, and its just for a couple of weeks...

It sounds though, that your friend wasn't given a time window, though, that he
should always play no more than a half hour? That's just too strange to
consider.

Your advice to him about moisture is great. I'm in Connecticut with dry, dry
winters and humid summers, so I always humidify my case in the winter with
orange peels, and I'm extremely careful about letting the horns adjust to air
conditioned rooms in the summer.

Teri Herel

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