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Re: clean

Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2010-06-20 11:04

Danny Silver wrote:
> It wouldn't be expensive to do this simple experiment and when I return
> from Europe in a few days I will practice heaps, drip profusely WITHOUT
> swabbing (a laudible sacrifice in light of the importance of this research)
> and take it around to my local pathology lab to have it tested.

Caution. As a side effect they might find out things like that you've been swapped in maternity clinic back then, that you did inhale back in '68 and that the beer that tastes like cat pee ..., well, you get the point. [tongue]

Ed Palanker wrote:
> If it were only condensation all four of us in the BSO would have exactly
> the same amount of "water" in there clarinets

The water in each clarinet accumulates differently - be it from different rags smearing different amounts or qualities of cork grease in the bore, be it from the different wood grain, .... on some of my clarinets the water accumulates in tone holes while in others it forms tiny rivers and just dribbles out the fastest way possible. I even think it also has to do with the piece you're playing - long chalumeau tones have a different effect than upper clarion staccatos, and so on...

Hmm. Today would be a good day to wash my swabs... [right]