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Author: chrystineNYC
Date: 2004-03-18 23:51
Is it a good idea to play the clarinet when your sick as a dog. I have been sick for a week now with what I hope is not walking pneumonia and yet I am trying to play. Will any sick germs stick to the clarinet or is this a really dumb question? And if it is a really dumb queston, I apologize :-)
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Author: hans
Date: 2004-03-19 00:19
Chrystine,
It's not a dumb question, but IMO you need to see your doctor to rule out pneumonia before you continue you play. Pneumonia is nothing to trifle with and can permanently damage your lungs if it isn't treated.
Play some CDs instead of your clarinet.
IMO cleaning your mouthpiece carefully after you recover should make it safe, otherwise every kid in school who shares an instrument would get sick.
Best wishes for a full recovery,
Hans
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Author: Contra
Date: 2004-03-19 00:23
You might want to discard that reed after you get better.
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Author: ChrisC
Date: 2004-03-19 00:35
I'm pretty sure that once you recover you'd be immune to whatever made you sick...this question came up before and I think that was the general consensus.
On second thought, boil everything! (No, not really.)
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Author: Taxijazz
Date: 2004-03-19 11:46
My clarinet never caught any sickness from me, and I have immunity to whatever I might have infected it with. Massage your reeds with garlic, and that might help, but I don't understand, because if I can still breath I could play.
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Author: Dan1937
Date: 2004-03-19 13:58
I asked a similar question about 3 months ago, and got a reply from an otolaryngologist at Harvard Medical School (as best I remember). Basically, he said, if you have some sort of sinus or bronchial infection and play your clarinet, your body makes antibodies to the infecting agent, so you would be immune to re-infection. And once your reed and mothpiece dry out, those germs would die (I think I would still feel better washing/disinfecting the mouthpiece).
Pneumonia might be a different animal, so to speak, as you probably would not feel like playing when you have that!
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-03-19 14:01
The lip blisters are my regular uninvited guests. It's the so-called 'herpes' thing on the lips whenever you're tired and so forth.
I had to play a tune on Christmasday at my church with that type of lips, made 2 squeaks, but kept the reed anyway (don't have it any longer. Discarded it eventually)..
Lucy Lee Jang
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