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If you let a new clarinet age for a long period of time, will it crack?

Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-03-14 03:14

I got into an interesting conversation with one of my fellow group members in our clarinet choir where we both agreed that it was an urban myth that if you age wood that has been cut off from a young tree, it is going to crack. Regardless of whether you let the age sit for years on end. If you look at a tree's age, there are more rings in the stump, and the older it is, the more rings. so therefore if you have an older piece of wood, it is less likely to crack as it has a density that doesn't fluctuate as new woods do.

but there's always an exception to that rule, neglect etc etc.

so what do you think? will new clarinets withstand crackability?

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau

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