Klarinet Archive - Posting 000753.txt from 1999/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: blow out
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:07:59 -0400

From: Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Where is the unbiased scientific evidence in support of or in
> rejection of this very questionable theory?

Dan,
I submit that the scientific evidence won't be there in my lifetime. To
gather the information we'd have to have _at least_ do the following:
1) A number of professional players (ones who play the clarinet
extensively), since it has been surmised that playing the clarinet often
and "hard" contributes to "blow-out"
2) A number of occasional or amateur players, to add to the numbers and
see if their clarinets "blow-out"
3) A number of clarinets that are not played at all, as a control.
4) A panel to measure the bores and record their findings (including
exactly where they measured the bore, the temperature, humidity, et al.)
5) A scrupulously maintained diary of clarinet maintenance and care of
every clarinet in the study.
6) A spectral analysis, blowing force measurement, etc., for the
clarinets in question, using a set of mouthpieces just for this purpose.

We'd then have to re-convene every 5 years or so for at least the next
40 years to compare with the baseline and determine which "blew out" and
why (if we can even determine the why). There's a good number of
conditions I left out above, too, but am too lazy to go through an
entire set and have them peer-reviewed considering that I'm not going to
do the experiment - or live to see it completed.

Considering I'm 45 now, and looking at my past lifestyle, statistically
speaking I should be dead before the study is completed. However - it'd
be a good project for some scientifically minded younger person.

----
Mark Charette@-----.org
"... hitting that right note, the right way, at the right time, is like
making
love. Or touching the foot of God. Or maybe both." - Carlos Santana

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