Klarinet Archive - Posting 000798.txt from 1999/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: blow out
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 04:52:04 -0400

I think this could be plausibly interpreted as:
The bore has become enlarged at the top end.
Roger Shilcock

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Fred Jacobowitz wrote:

> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: RE: [kl] re: blow out
>
> To All And Sundry:
> YES, BLOWOUT EXISTS. IT HAPPENED TO MY CLARINET!!!!!!!!!
>
> The symptoms are: 1) A brightening of tone to the point of being shrill.
> 2) The troat tones going radically sharper, along with
> all the other notes also going somewhat sharper. (at first I thought I
> could fix it with a longer barrel but that didn't help the throat tones
> much).
> Wanna hear the difference? Come and hear it compared to my
> pressent clarinet (they are both R-13's.
> If it were just me I would think that, alright, I am either nuts
> (yeah, yeah, I know - I **AM** nuts) or that it was a fluke. However, too
> many other players, like Stanley Drucker (who replaces his horns every ten
> years to prevent being saddled with a blown out horn) have also
> experienced it.
> As has been said, don't disbelieve something just because you
> haven't experienced it.
>
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
> Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
>
> On Fri, 14 May 1999, Edwin V. Lacy wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 14 May 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:
> >
> > > I have an opinion too. Blow out is a phenomenon suggested to exist by
> > > musical instrument manufacturers for the purpose of selling
> > > instruments; i.e., it is a sales tool which has come to be accepted by
> > > the clarinet-playing community as a whole.
> >
> > My goodness, Dan! You certainly are have your cynic's hat on today! ;-)
> >
> > Well, I have an opinion, too. It is that blowout does exist. However, I
> > have never been told this by an instrument manufacturer or salesman. I
> > have two sources of information on which I base that opinion. The first
> > is my own observation, based on playing some grenadilla instruments, very
> > old, but in very good mechanical condition, and then comparing them with
> > some newer ones, also in good condition. The second is from technically-
> > oriented people in the field of materials science, who know about and have
> > described the phenomenon known as "depolymerization," and who have
> > observed its effects under the microscope.
> >
> > > The evidence for the non-existence of this problem is copious.
> >
> > What is that evidence?
> >
> > > The evidence for its existence falls in the realm of urban legends.
> >
> > I have a hard time regarding the knowledge and experience of the entire
> > field of materials science as "urban legend."
> >
> > > And the last way to win a technical argument is to suggest that "xxx
> > > says so!"
> >
> > Then, you will be pleased to learn that, while I remain willing to be
> > convinced that blow-out is only an urban legend, I won't make that
> > intellectual and philosophical jump based on the fact that you say it
> > doesn't exist.
> >
> > Ed Lacy
> > el2@-----.edu
> >
> >
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