Klarinet Archive - Posting 000716.txt from 1999/10

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Cracked clarinets
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 00:36:39 -0400

Tom R. noted:

<<<After installing several hundreds of pins I have begun to suspect that a
clarinet that has a propensity for cracking will crack no matter how well
you take care of it.>>>

I do not have Mr. R's depth of experience in repairing clarinets--few of us
do--but I share his suspicion. I have never had a clarinet crack, and to be
honest have not been all that careful. (For example, my current Bb -- oddly
enough, back to the one I acquired in high school -- has sat in a
refrigerator and done way more than its share of outdoor concerts. In rain
;-( ) Friends of mine who have done the whole religious thing with
break-in periods, orange peels etc. cracked anyway.

It seems that clarinets that do crack do it relatively early in life.
Anyone have an old one crack up, absent some really egregious abuse?

If there is an internal flaw in the wood, it'll crack sooner or later.
Better for it to be sooner, I think.

kjf

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