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Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-04-27 19:29
While clarinetists debate the issue of oiling, one set of overarching questions may be missed. What is the purpose of regularly, periodically oiling a clarinet's bore that has had and still gets normal use? Ostensibly, it's to prevent cracking.
If we oil the bore, can we certain that the clarinet will not crack? If we don't oil the bore, is the clarinet certain to crack? Is there a clear correlation compiled by any source that shows that oiled clarinets are less likely to crack or that clarinets under normal, continued use are more likely to crack?
All of the evidence relating to these questions is anecdotal and based, in general, on very limited numbers of instruments. Repair people tend to see more instruments after they have cracked than the rest of us do, so their sample is at least biased. I've owned only about a half-dozen clarinets in my life and of the granadilla clarinets, only one cracked very soon after I bought it new, long before even the most insistent supporters of routine maintenance with bore oil would have been applying it. One other, made of rosewood, was also a brand new instrument that cracked in shipment a few weeks after I bought it. So I own 4 granadilla soprano clarinets and a bass that are by now decades old, have never been oiled and have never cracked. That isn't really a meaningful sample, either.
Regardless of the ability of bore oil of any kind to penetrate the wood, what is the strongest evidence anyone can cite that it makes a difference?
Karl
Post Edited (2018-04-27 22:19)
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