Klarinet Archive - Posting 000453.txt from 2002/01

From: "Gene Nibbelin" <gnibbelin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Orange Peels
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:31:28 -0500

Edwin -

Of course your horns aren't going to explode. My point is that the highly
volatile and possibly toxic fumes may really adversely affect the horns in
the closed environment of the case.

I'm with Tony P. on this. I don't eat oranges very often, either. Not
because of the volatile substance in the peel but because they generally
give me heartburn - too acid for me. Makes me a disloyal Floridian.

I know that you were probably answering humorously and so am I to some
extent.

A former fellow Hoosier (for 31 years)

Gene Nibbelin

-----Original Message-----
From: Lacy, Edwin [mailto:el2@-----.edu]
Subject: RE: [kl] Orange Peels

<<<Going back to my high school chemistry teacher who showed us the highly
combustible/explosive liquid contained in orange peels by squeezing a piece
of peel into a Bunsen burner flame. He said that it was many more times
explosive that gasoline.>>>

Now, everyone just calm down, relax, don't get excited. I have put orange
peels (and sometimes grapefruit peels) in the cases with my instruments
many, many times during the past 40 years or so, and I'm happy to report
that not one of them has ever exploded!

Ed Lacy
EL2@-----.edu

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