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water in tone holes

Author: A.R.
Date: 2000-03-10 20:54

I have a real problem.
I'm a professional clarinettist living in Holland.
I always have water in the tone holes of my Buffet.
Even after playing for ten minutes and I'm sick of drying it again and again, especially during the concerts.
Who can help me to solve this real problem?

Thanks a lot!

A.R.

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RE: water in tone holes

Author: paul
Date: 2000-03-10 21:24

There is an entry in the clarinet Help section of this BBS that discusses this problem and a way to help minimize its effect. In case you can't find that BBS entry, here is the idea. You can paint a small line of bore oil around your tone holes, especially the very troublesome C#/G# tone hole. You can also paint a single line inside the lower part of the entire bore of both joints to help with moisture drainage on all of the other tone holes. I used sweet almond oil with Vitamin E preservative. I purchased this oil from the cooking oil section of a large grocery store in a large American city. A small pint bottle cost about $3 US retail. It seems to work for me in my 1994 vintage wood Buffet clarinet.

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RE: water in tone holes

Author: Lindy
Date: 2000-03-14 13:48

Leather pads help as a longer term solution, they did on my old edgeware anyway.
I've recently upgraded to an RC and the problem hasn't occured, so far anyway.
If the pads on your clarinet aren't brand new it might be a consideration.

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