Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 2001/02

From: "N. Jayne Marquess" <njmarque@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Oral Moisture.
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:34:44 -0500

My daughter's district solo and ensemble contest was this past
weekend (the band director requires everyone in the top band to play
something there or she wouldn't have gone) and I pickep up this tip from
the judge in the "clarinet" room. I always like to sit and listen to the
young players in the woodwind section. My own daughter plays flute.
Anyway-----this poor young woman had a pad that started to
splutter part way through her Mozart piece and she was frantically trying
to blow the stuff out during the brief piano-only sections. After the
performance the judge told her that it was much better to SUCK the
moisture from the hole. I tried it the next time it happened to me and it
was dry without swabbing for the next 20 minutes!!! I agree this sounds
pretty gross, but it is, after all, your own "moisture" and it works!

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