Klarinet Archive - Posting 000735.txt from 2001/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Cracking clarinets
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:43:06 -0400

At 12:02 PM 4/30/2001 -0500, Lacy Schroeder wrote:
>I don't know if this would help the discussion any, but my junior year of
>high school, one of the bass clarinetists in the all-state honors band with
>me had her horn crack. It was late January in central Illinois, with
>sub-freezing temperatures. I don't think it was too dry, being that there
>was a foot of snow on the ground....

The OUTSIDE air may or may not have been dry, but in the winter, with
heating systems in operation, INDOOR air tends to be VERY dry in the
winter. That's why it is not uncommon for tenon and bell rings to get
loose in the winter, but be fine again come spring. The wood actually
shrinks that much in the low humidity.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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