Klarinet Archive - Posting 000501.txt from 2000/10

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] About these cleaning cloths
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:07:52 -0400

I wrote:

>> The original post pertained to swabs, not polishing cloths, although the
>> subject line is indeed a little ambiguous.

Bill Hausmann wrote:

> The original post referred to "cleaning cloths" and the body of the post
> still left it ambiguous.

"Referred" vs "pertained" -- 'see the mile-wide semantic difference?
The former is literal, the latter interpretive. The post did indeed
refer to cleaning cloths, but its meaning pertained to swabs. And
clearly "swab" is not a universal word among "us", otherwise the confusion
would never have arisen in the first place. With such broad cultural,
linquistic, age-based, and experience-based representation on this list,
it is inappropriate to assume that any given individual shares any other's
conceptual understanding, unless prior exchanges have made it evident.

With respect to the swab issue itself, I've always found plain ol' cotton
preferable to silk. Maybe I'm just tricking myself, but silk seems more
abrasive to me, and I don't like the idea of increased abrasion on the in-
side of my instruments. Secondly, I'm able to turn a cotton swab over to
the other side when I pull it through the instrument a second time, allow-
ing me to pick up any moisture that wasn't absorbed on the first pass.
Silk -- because it's so thin -- is nearly saturated on the first pass.
Thus, pulling it through again seems merely to redistribute the moisture
that was picked up in the first place, whether I turn it over or not.

-- Neil

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