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RE: Can I leave it assembled?

Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2001-04-12 09:32

Thanks for the fine answer Eoin. All in all I think that many of the posters on the BB are assimilating a lot of the knowledge imparted by the many experienced people that answer the questions posed on the BB, adding their own knowledge and experience, and posting some really good quality stuff. As Eoin pointed out their can be an accumulation of water in the joints even if the clarinet is swabbed out after use which can cause the wood to swell (this goes back to wood treatment, oiling the wood, and other questions too lenghty to approach here). The cork is also left in a compressed state when you leave the horn assembled. Depending on what cork treatment that you use, the cork will rebound when disassembled and no harm no foul. Petroleum greases will cause the cork (over time) to loose these compressibility and rebound characteristics and you will end up with loose joints (see previous thread posting by me - of photomicrograph studies of normal and compressed cork treated with natural, synthetic and petroleum based cork treatments). Certain natural cork treatments and certain synthetics will retain this compressibility and rebound potential for a much longer period of time. All this being said I would still disassemble and swab out the tenons after use. I am sure that all of us can do this job in less than 30 seconds - I can still remember how to field strip, clean, and reassemble an M-16 blindfolded in less than 30 seconds so the clarinet routine is a snap and much better for the horn in the long run.

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