Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2011/02

From: Susan Kundert <ohsuzan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Help?!
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:20:18 -0500

Karl,

I also suffer from this during the winter. It takes its good ol' time
to heal, but what I do in the meantime is get a package of finger cots
(from the drugstore/pharmacy, in the area where they keep the gauze
and bandages and such), and keep one over the offending digit as I
play. They do not interfere with playing at all -- in fact, make it
easier to cover the holes when the finger is raw like you have
described.

Susan

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.com> wrote:
> I had a very strange experience this afternoon. Most of my chalumeau notes
> were suddenly very unreliable and unresponsive. I've been performing on this
> particular instrument for the past week with no such problem. I checked it
> to see how well it would hold a vacuum and the bottom joint was fine. The
> top joint, however, seemed to have a major leak. Checking the pads with a
> feeler and, finally even by taking them off and inspecting each pad turned
> up no apparent explanation. Then, to make sure I hadn't lost my sanity, I
> started testing another B-flat instrument and my A clarinet. To my
> amazement, both were acting the same way! All of a sudden, all three of my
> clarinets seemed to have developed major leaks in the upper section.
>
> It took a couple of panicky minutes longer for me to realize that the
> problem wasn't any of the instruments. It was my left thumb. I had developed
> a rather painful dry skin crack in the skin, as it happens, in a spot that
> sits on the rim of the thumb hole. It isn't all that deep, but enough that
> air is escaping through it. Shifting my thumb slightly so that a solid
> surface covered the hole solves the problem, although it's now out of a
> normal position, which forces my whole hand position to shift.
>
> Has anyone who has experienced this kind of really inconveniently placed
> chapped skin wound during the winter found a way to accelerate the healing
> process? I can't really imagine playing with my thumb shifted as I must to
> avoid the problem, but I don't want to miss the practice time - I have a
> show to play next week and another the week after, so I can't just put the
> horn down for a week and let my thumb take its own time.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Karl
>
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