Klarinet Archive - Posting 000909.txt from 2000/04

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Stuff that can drive me nuts
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:32:12 -0400

Lucas11235@-----.com wrote:

<><> What is this "blow-out" you speak of?

There is a theory -- and the debates about this get very tiresome
such that many people here don't want to hear them again -- that
clarinets wear out (are 'blown out') simply by being blown on for many,
many years.
The debate is never settled one way or the other, and it usually
becomes emotional with lots of 'ad hominem' and anecdotes about how
"I've played my <whatever> for 30 years now, and my mother played it for
40 years before me, and my great uncle played it for 50 years before
that, when our family still lived in <name a country>, and this
instrument is *still* the most beautiful instrument that ever graced
human lips...."

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