Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-06-20 02:01
To answer your question, no, swabing out often will not hurt the bore of your clarinet unless you use a very coarse swab, which none of us use. Swab as much as you need so the pads don't get wet.
I play in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and I swab my clarinet very often, regular clarinets as well as bass clarinet. One of my colleagues also swabs out often, the other two not nearly as much. Anyone that thinks that the moister is only condensation I'd like them to know that I have a very old bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them, cheap too. I, like many others, play with a lot of saliva, that's the reason the if I don't swab out very ofter, about every 10-15 minutes depending on how much I'm playing, then I get a lot of saliva in the bore and it get's into the pads. If it were only condensation all four of us in the BSO would have exactly the same amount of "water" in there clarinets, that's not the way it is. I've had students who's clarinet are soaked in 15 -20 minutes, pads are wet etc. and in the same room, the same day, the next student has very little moister at the end of the lesson. It makes no difference if we play in A/C, heated hall or outside, I have to swab much more then the person next to me and that's a fact because my saliva glads work much more than someone else. I'd really like to put this to rest, it's stupid to think that the moister in your clarinet is ONLY condensation, period. I've seen players play an entire solo work without having to swab yet I have to swab after every other movement and still I often get moister in some pads. Why, because I spit a lot when I play. Not on purpose, I just can't help it. DUH! ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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