Klarinet Archive - Posting 000832.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] More blow out
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:19:11 -0400

> From: MX%"klarinet@-----.32
> Subj: [kl] More blow out

> It seems that there are some very logical reasons why a clarinet gets blown
> out.
> 1) The saliva in our mouths helps us digest food. Wouldn't this have some
> type of affect on the wood in a bore after a number of years?
>
> 2) Besides the bore changing dimensions with age, the edge sharpness of the
> tone holes is also affected by saliva, swabbing, temperature and humidity
> changes. With age the edges of the tone holes will become more round.
>
> 3) The inner bore becomes smoother (almost glass like) with age from
> repeated swapping. A bore that has more grain will induce more turbulence
> into the air flow.
>
> Most players get used to their old clarinets and never notice any
> problems until they try a new horn a feel how much resistance is lost in
> their old horns and how the left hand notes aren't as centered as on a new
> horn.
>
> It seems that since there has been no scientific study, Dan L. will not
> accept that a clarinet does get blown out even though many professionals
> attest to this fact.
>
> Dan

Actually, I deleted this message and then went back to it. Is there some
message you are trying to tell me, Dan P., in your final paragraph? Am
I supposed to be impressed by your assertion that many professionals attest
to what you say is a fact? And because you say something is a fact, does
that make it so?

What real evidence do you have other than your own opinion, that items
1-3 above do anything like that which you say they do?

>
>
> --
> Daniel A. Paprocki
> Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
> Columbus, Ohio
>
>
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