Klarinet Archive - Posting 000144.txt from 2011/05

From: "Peter Gentry" <peter.gentry@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wind Instruments and Respiratory Infections
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:10:18 -0400

Oh dear my second sentence was ill constructed. I did not mean that the
first part of that sentence was rubbish merely the NYT extrapolation from
"shock horror" there are bugs on instruments to the conclusion that this is
a cause of the so far not reported excess of respiratory infection in wind
players. Phew hope the clarifies the matter....:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Gentry [mailto:peter.gentry@-----.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:02 PM
> To: 'The Klarinet Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [kl] Wind Instruments and Respiratory Infections
>
> What the NYT did not report was the ACTUAL incidence of chronic
> respiratory
> infection in wind players. Any and EVERY surface around you is teeming
> with
> bacteria and yeasts this is scientific rubbish. We are designed to live in
> a
> world of bacteria and yeasts that is why we have an immune system!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nancy Buckman [mailto:nebuckman@-----.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:42 PM
> > To: The Klarinet Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Wind Instruments and Respiratory Infections
> >
> > OK...sorry sick musicians...if you haven't learned after the second time
> > you
> > played your instrument that you have to keep it clean, then you have
> > earned
> > your illnesses. The New York Times is NOT reporting anything that a
> REAL
> > musician doesn't already know. And woodwinds...wash your swabs...every
> > day! Sheesh!!!
> >
> > Nancy
> > --
> > Nancy Buckman
> > AACC Symphony
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> > Early Music Society of Northern MD
> > nebuckman@-----.com
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