Klarinet Archive - Posting 000455.txt from 2002/01

From: CmdrHerel@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Orange Peels
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:30:08 -0500

In a message dated 1/16/02 6:12:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
el2@-----.edu writes:

<< <<<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! >>

I have been eating oranges for over thirty years, and I have also not
exploded! (Temper excluded).

Lemon oil is a recommended finish for fine wood, so I would truly question
how orange would be so damaging. I usually don't hold either my furniture or
my clarinets (or myself) over a bunson burner. I also don't rub the orange
peels up and down the wood of my clarinets... I wrap the peels in a few
thickness of paper towel instead and put them where they don't touch the
horns.

Teri

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