Klarinet Archive - Posting 000665.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] blowout
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 04:11:05 -0400

Well --- my Buffet B flat must be around 80 years old, and it certainly
isn't* "blown out". What *has* happened is that the sockets are worn, and
so is the keywork, especially the bearing surfaces at the ends of the
rods.
What are supposed to be the physical signs of "blow-out"?
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 14 May 1999, Rich Gordley wrote:

> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 12:05:30 -0500
> From: Rich Gordley <rgordley@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] blowout
>
> The doublereed list had a lengthy debate on this subject a couple of months
> ago. The oboists there are almost universally convinced that this
> phenomenon exists, although the evidence or lack of same is similar to that
> in the same thread here. If the phenomenom exists we should be able to
> assemble some answers in the following form.
>
> 1. Symptoms of blowout
>
> 2. Measurable characteristics of blown-out instrument as compared to non
> blown-out instrument
>
> If "blow out" is not an entirely subjective judgement made by
> instrumentalists, then completely nonmusical tonedeaf individuals of some
> technical sort should be able to unerringly identify blown out instruments
> with objective tests. If such evidence exists then lets have it!! Until
> then it is like Uri Geller, results obtainable only when scientific
> observers are absent...or in short "bogus".
>
> Rich Gordley
>
>
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