Klarinet Archive - Posting 000135.txt from 2007/09

From: "David Blumberg" <blummy@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 22 Sep 2007 09:01:02 -0000 Issue 7470
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:32:04 -0400

Robert Howe <arehow@-----.net>
Subject: Re: klarinet Digest 22 Sep 2007 09:01:02 -0000 Issue 7470
Message-ID: <C31B210C.4ED7%arehow@-----.net>

> (Please don't
>> tell me about instruments becoming blown out. We're old friends and I
>> don't
>> want us to argue about myths.)

Oboes blow out, this is beyond dispute. The upper register becomes
uncertain, the tone gets thin. Reboring or even shellacking and reboring
don't help. Bassoons don't seem to blow out. So clarinets don't?

Robert Howe

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My set of Buffet Prestige's are now 19 years old and aren't going to blow
out until I can afford a new set ..... ;)

David Blumberg
http://www.mytempo.com

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