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Re: CRACKS

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2016-05-16 09:04

Statistically and proportionally, I see more cracked older clarinets (a few decades old or older) than newer clarinets (%-wise). I guess that's because they had a lot more time to crack. I assume some older cracked clarinets were thrown away, etc.

Does "denser" wood mean less likely to crack? I doubt it.

This is all just very variable. As an example, I just saw a pretty old clarinet (from the 70s) that had a crack which was glued and never re-opened. It was there when the current owner bought it. Decades later, this clarinet suddenly had a new crack a couple of months ago.

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