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Author: matilda
Date: 2004-11-17 13:21
I have brought my clarinet (R13) back to uni with me but over time my accomodation has become very cold and damp (typical student house!!). My clarinet has not suffered visably as a result of this but I am worried that I am going to run into trouble when I suddenyl go home to a nice warm dry house with it at Christmas. Does anybody know of anything that I can do either now or when I go home to help prevent damage??
Cheers
Matilda
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Author: William
Date: 2004-11-17 14:19
Try to keep your clarinet as uniformly warm as possible. There will always be times when this is not possible--walking from your dorm to rehearsal, etc--but when it is storage, try to make certain the relative temperature stays as constant as possible. Always warm a cold clarinet up slowly before beginning the gig. If it is extremely fridgid, open the case and let it warm a few minutes in the air before actually playing and blowing warm air through it. Sudden and drastic temperature change is what causes the real damage to occure--like throwing your totally warm clarinet immediantely into a snow bank (or some other similar dumb analogy). Clarinets really deal with gradual temperature change quite well, but try to minimalize the change as much as possible during storage.
Also, keep practicing. This will help lessen the effects of temperature and climate change between practice room and rehearsal hall--and even between different climatic environments. You will probably notice more of a change in how your reeds play from university to home, rather than how much your clarinet itself changes. Beyond this advice, try doing a search on humidification or humidifiers. Much has been posted regarding this subject in previous threads.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-11-17 23:15
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=159542&t=159542 good thread on humidity
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Author: Rene
Date: 2004-11-18 06:57
As far as I understand it, your cold and damp student home is far better for your clarinet than your warm pleasant home, which is most likely very dry.
If you play in a heated, thus dry home and especially if you leave the wetness to soak into the clarinet interior after play, you will have a wet clarinet inside and a dry clarinet outside. This is the worst that can happen to wood.
But read about it in the BBoard! It has been discussed over and over again.
Rene
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