Klarinet Archive - Posting 001046.txt from 1999/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Leaving the horn out
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 04:01:23 -0500

Een if you swab every time, the cork is going to be *wet* after a
reasonably long session, and it then swells up. This can make your joints
seize up. I know about
this - it
happened to the bell on my B flat.
Roger Shilcock

On 19 Jan 1999 charette@-----.org wrote:

> Date: 19 Jan 1999 20:21:16 -0000
> From: charette@-----.org
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Leaving the horn out
>
> Teri said:
> >It's just bad to leave the clarinet out and assembled.
>
> Teri,
> Why, besides the corks getting compressed? Mine's not out long enough top
> gather dust, and I regularly swab it (including a total disassembly/
> reassembly.
>
> I can't figure out why it would be especially a "bad" thing to do, I
> leave my piano assembled, my guitar and bas (back when I played those)
> assembled, etc.
>
> I'd really like to know - the question isn't rhetorical. Being knocked
> over isn't any problem where I keep it (noi more problem, anyway,
> than me dropping it while assembling it).
>
> Cheers,
> Mark Charette@-----.org
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
> Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
> Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
> Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org
>
>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from Klarinet, e-mail: klarinet-unsubscribe@-----.org
Subscribe to the Digest: klarinet-digest-subscribe@-----.org
Additional commands: klarinet-help@-----.org
Other problems: klarinet-owner@-----.org