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 Re: Do you swab your mouthpiece? DISCUSSION
Author: fskelley 
Date:   2014-02-08 22:51

"I've stopped even playing my mouthpiece at all because of the destructive friction of air molecules, water vapor, and (gasp!) biological components."
LOL

Long post, so... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
I swab my mouthpiece with the first pass through my clarinet. Then I set mouthpiece aside as I swab horn at least 1 more time. Mouthpiece then gets Sterisol on outside.

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I had a 38 yr break in my clarinet playing, from about age 19 to 57. And I am far more fastidious in my handling of the woodwind/mouth bioload than I was in my early years. I look back in horror at how I and my classmates handled things- probably very similar to any school band room today. People have learned not to swim in warm canals in the summer (amoebas), musicians can learn not to reinfect themselves with previous illnesses or grow new ones. (Though I'm sure clarinetists still only get about 15 sec to put away their stuff and get out the door to next class... those were the days- ugh.)

I'm a nut about it- you probably don't need to be. But I think doing nothing is a bad idea. One reason I liked Legere reeds and stuck with them so long (and might return to them if I can make them work the way I want), is that I could Sterisol them AFTER EVERY SESSION with impunity, just like I do TO MY MOUTHPIECE. Now I'm back on cane reeds, and the best I can do is a dilute peroxide soak at the end of the session (Sterisol remains in the cane and tastes bad). I know peroxide doesn't kill everything, but it's better than nothing. (And no, that's not why my reeds stop playing extreme altissimo after a while- that happens even in the first playing session before peroxide.) I did learn not to do the peroxide on the mouthpiece- after a couple of months I began to see it bleach, and since I care how it looks (I know some of you don't) I switched back to Sterisol and complicated my regimen even more because now I need both solutions.

Stan in Orlando

EWI 4000S with modifications
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