Klarinet Archive - Posting 000936.txt from 2000/02

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: stuck swab
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:12:46 -0500

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:07:50 -0500 "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
writes:
>Dear "Stuck Swab" and the Ellems:
>
>I have seen posted on Klarinet by clarinetists much smarter than myself
that
>silk is less absorbent than cotton. This seems to make sense to me
since
>cotton is a much coarser fiber than silk, which should allow more
absorption
>and silk fabric is usually more tightly woven than cotton and thus would
be
>less likely to readily absorb moisture. This would seem to me to make
>cotton swabs more absorbent than silk.
>
>Also, circumstances that would cause a cotton swab to get stuck could
also
>get a silk swab stuck. Granted that a silk swab is "slicker" and might
not
>get stuck quite as easily, this "slickness", may confirm my thought that
>silk is less absorbent than cotton.
>
>Gene Nibbelin
>Cape Coral, FL

The absorbancy of silk varies by how it is processed and finished.
Silk fabric can be very absorbant and very quick to dry.
Raw silk and some dyes and finishes make a stiff, waxy surface. Some
silk is washable, some not.

What do i know about silk? I like its characteristics and buy clothes
whenever i can. In cold it retains warmth, and in heat
breathes--opposite of polyester that in other ways resembles silk. It
drapes and moves very freely (unless waxy) and dries very quickly.

So, whether silk would make a good swab, like a lot of other things....
it depends!

natural fiber-ly yours,
annhall

~Ann H Satterfield~
Principal Clarinet
Imperial Sym.Orch.
Lakeland, Florida

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