Klarinet Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 2000/02

From: "Ed & Carol Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece swabbing
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:24:25 -0500

After practicing I flush out my MP with cold water. I the use the smallest
child's toothbrush you can buy to lightly clean any crud the flushing might
have missed. I shake out any excess water. I never bother to dry it. I've
been using my daughter's old tooth brush. She's 28 now and the little brush
is still doing fine.

Ed Maurey
----- Original Message -----
From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.org>
Subject: Re: [kl] Mouthpiece swabbing

> 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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> >
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