Klarinet Archive - Posting 000485.txt from 2003/09

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dryness, moisture, expansion, shrinking
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:54:20 -0400

You don't realize that the 'rambling' of experienced folks like you is the
kind of thing that send many of us to hit the print icon on our computers,
Walter. I appreciate the help, and remember my first experience with a bass
clarinet, doubling in a pit orchestra in a dry old theater in winter. After
two performances it started seizing as you described, and I had to try to
regulate it on the fly during a performance. And I recall Stanley Drucker
here once for a master class and recital. He walked off stage after
completing the first movement of the first Brahms sonata, then returning
five minutes later - his clarinet had reacted likewise to our climate after
being here for three days, and he had gone off stage to get his other Bb to
warm it up and finish the performance.

You also reminded me that I used to salvage and sell John Weigand old HR
mouthpieces which he in turn used to make inserts for barrels, but I never
tried one myself.

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