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Author: myrnabs
Date: 2006-10-08 05:57
Could it be possible to make your throat feel scratchy from playing?
I tend to start getting a sore throat when I practice over an hour. But lately I've been feeling it more, and even my ears are starting to pop. It may be that I'm coming down with some virus. But this is making me feel that my sound is horrible eventhough the tuner says I'm in tune. I have never gone thru something like this even when I really do get sick. That's why I'm getting worried.
Any suggestions?? Or doctor's in da house, hahahhaa! Sorry couldn't resist.
Myrna
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Author: Bruno
Date: 2006-10-09 13:53
I buy little boxes of individually sealed alcohol swabs in the diabetic section of Walgreens et al, a hundred or so for $2.00, and keep them in my clarinet case or nearby.
They're good for wiping off mouthpieces, older reeds, reedguard things, hands, and many other etceteras.
I find that if I use a mouthpiece I haven't used in a while I too get a scratchy throat. I have even gotten a cold a few days afterward.
I can only attribute it to my own older naso-pharyngeal viruses for which I have lost my immunity, and which might be hanging out in the crevices of mouthpieces and reeds just waiting for a chance to plunge their nasty little teeth into my mucous membranes.
Hence the alcohol swabs. Washing the mouthpiece with soap and water after use obviates the need but I don't always do it.
Good science? Power of suggestion? Who knows, who cares. All that matters is that it doesn't hurt anything and it works.
b.
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