Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-03-02 20:50
I prefer to take clarinets apart for storage. Some of my yard sale and flea market finds probably had remained partially assembled in their cases for years. Some were nearly impossible to wrest apart. Some were full of mold, mildew, live vermin or dead vermin, thanks to being put away damp. Dampness remaining inside the bore after swabbing dries out much faster if the clarinet is disassembled.
I wonder whether anybody in the history of clarinet playing has ever decided, "Well, I'll never play the clarinet again, so I'd better make sure to store it disassembled, so the corks don't bind and the inside dries out completely." Nope. We don't know when this time may be the last time we play that particular clarinet. Better to assume, always, that we're storing it for posterity -- and for me that means taking all the sections apart, every time.
Lelia
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