Klarinet Archive - Posting 000815.txt from 1999/11

From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] mouthpiece slime
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 22:27:04 -0500

>From: Takumi123@-----.com
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] mouthpiece slime
>Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 23:10:21 EST
>
>In a message dated 99/11/19 19:42:44 ‘¾•½—m•W€Žž, deehays@-----.com
>writes:
>
><< I bet she left it somewhere it got too warm or used hot water! I can't
> imagine it bending any other way.
> >>
>me either.
>and the thing about all the mold and stuff, I think it's just the bacteria
>on
>your tongue which gets into your spit and forms a colonie over time.
>Ummm I've been playing for a long time w/o cleaning my instrument and it
>looks fine on the inside so it must be how the students treat their
>instument
>and the amount of spit they spit in I suppose.
>Takumi

I doubt that actually has anything to do with it- I am a high school
clarinetist, and I've seen some clarinetists who don't ever remove their
reed- causing the moisture to build up... and fungus to grow. At least
that's what I would assume causes it.:)

Michael L.
-An avid (more or less) reader

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