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"Neverwet" thoughts for clarinet

Author: Etude
Date: 2013-06-21 20:34

Today I saw a video about a product that I believe is new. The product's name is "Neverwet." Basically you spray a coating on an object, wait 15 minutes, and then spray another layer of different 'stuff' and then water brushes off the surface you sprayed it on. In the video they showed someone pouring chocolate syrup on a shirt and it slides right off and other silly things. I thought of a couple possible uses for the clarinet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZrjXSsfxMQ

I will say that I am not very knowledgable on how moisture works on the inside of a clarinet. But, if someone somehow applied, maybe a 1/2 centimeter (or less) width band of this stuff around the circumference of certain toneholes (inside the bore), would it prevent water from getting into the toneholes? So that it won't make "the gurgles" with the water in the holes that tend to happen after playing lefthand Eb/Bb key, or the lefthand C#/G# key for awhile? This is working on the assumption that this is caused by moisture running down the walls of the bore. So the water would run down the bore, and when it gets to the treated spot, it would slide around it and stay out of the hole. Watching in the video the way water reacts to coming in contact with the treated spots, it seems that it would go around the treated area, instead of just sliding over it.

Or does the moisture get to those less desired spots because it is in the air we push through the horn, and when open those toneholes, the air rushes out and deposits the moisture then? I'm not sure.

But, would preventing water from getting there make it so that those areas would dry-out and crack? I'm not sure how sensitive the wood would be to this, or if moisture absorbed by the clarinet is able to shift far enough within the wood so that it could get to the spots from within the wood anyways.

Another idea is just coating the pads with it so moisture leaves them alone.

Anyone have any thoughts on these thoughts? :0)

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