Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2000/02

From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece swabbing
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 16:56:03 -0500

Influenced, I suppose, by Roger Garrett's admonitions not to swab, and my
own desire to keep the mouthpiece at least a little sanitary, I have
adopted a middle ground, and made up a mouthpiece swab with a short cord
and a small (6" or so) piece of old undershirt material. Does the trick
without pulling the whole handkerchief swab through the mouthpiece. And in
using it, I try to pull it to avoid the tip. So far (2 years or so) there
has been no noticeable change in the mouthpiece.

After learning of this problem, I examined the mouthpiece I had played on
through high school and college, and indeed the tip area was rounded off -
probably from pulling the whole swab through it and not being very careful.
It sure was out of shape!

At 07:20 AM 02/02/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:50 AM 2/2/2000 CST, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>
>> This post reminded me about a point one of my various instructors
brought
>>up- if you swab out a mouthpiece everyday, after a few years, the
>>mouthpiece's insides will expand, and change the overall characteristics of
>>that moutpiece. Is this true? TIA
>>
>There was a long and bitter thread on this a while back. Let's see if I
>can summarize:
>
>Cotton or silk not very abrasive, but the Grand Canyon was dug by water
>over a long time.
>
>I will keep swabbing mine. I figure the extra wear from having to clean
>the serious gunk off occasionally is saved by the daily mild cleansing.
>
>
>
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>
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