Klarinet Archive - Posting 000649.txt from 2001/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] reamers
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 18:06:44 -0500

On Fri, 23 Nov 2001 10:30:48 +0000, njs5@-----.uk said:

> Ovality implies shrinking, and shrinking more in one direction than
> the other, and like my friend Tony Pay I know that correcting this
> must be bringing the clarinet closer to its original size.
>
> Nick

...whereas, I'd written previously:

> Some people think that to do such a thing is horrific, because it
> 'destroys evidence'. But I have yet to see even the beginnings of a
> study that uses information like the current dimensions of an
> unplayable wind instrument to draw conclusions of any worth. How
> could such a study even exist?

Yours is a sobering observation to me, Nick. Clearly you give an
example of someone 'drawing conclusions of some worth' from such
information. I'd totally forgotten about that. Shows how hasty one can
be when arguing for a point of view.

Let me turn the situation to positive use. I'm sure that members of the
list would be as interested as I was a few months ago, to hear what you
can deduce about the relationship between the current and original
boresize from measurements of the relative dimensions of such an oval,
plus some knowledge of the properties of the wood in question.

(Even if I forgot about it:-(

Tony
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