Klarinet Archive - Posting 000245.txt from 2003/05

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] excessive saliva
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 00:07:18 -0400

on 5/10/2003 8:07 PM, Raycraft wrote:

>There IS no cure. ;-)

It's pretty unlikely that *saliva* is getting into the pads.

Having said that - try swabbing very frequently for the first few minutes
of playing. Once the temperature of the clarinet and your breath have
equalized a little bit, condensation should be less of a problem. Also,
frequent swabbing undoes the "tracks" that condensation creates down the
bore.

If the problem won't go away, you can paint a little bore oil around the
top of the affected tone holes to "guide" the condensation around the
hole.

David

David Niethamer
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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