Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-10-13 15:22
Nevertheless, take it from a longtime picker, things do grow inside clarinets put away wet. I've taken apart instruments with the register key tube clogged, keyholes (especially trill keys, high up on the instrument) full of dried out old gunk and even fungus among us along the inside of the bore. The problem with letting a clarinet get into that condition isn't that The Blob will migrate up the bore into your mouth, which I agree is unlikely to happen. The problem is that spores and bacteria can get into the mouthpiece and reeds simply from proximity: from sharing the same air-space inside the closed case.
I suppose I've written on this subject often enough to make people think I'm obsessed with it, but in fact I don't do anything except rinse the mouthpiece and reed and swab the clarinet after every time I play. That's next to no work and it's plenty enough to prevent these problems.
Lelia
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