Klarinet Archive - Posting 000694.txt from 1998/09

From: Dodgshun family <dodgshun@-----.nz>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wood Technology
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:44:18 -0400

At 03:25 PM 17/09/98 EDT, you wrote:
<snip>
Most cracks occur from rapid thermal expansion
>and/or internal stresses.

I got my R-13 brought over from England for me - it's been to 30,000 feet
several times, at least twice in the cargo hold of the plane. So it's been
very very cold, then brought down to sea level again. I played the crap out
of it without going through the breaking in process, and I've never had any
problems at all. I know of players here who leave their horns in their cars
on frosty nights, then play them in the morning with no problems. I think
that if an instrument is going to crack, it's probably because of the wood
and there's not an awful lot we can do about it. A teacher here bought a
brand new Yamaha; within a week it had cracked from the A key right up to
the tenon.

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