Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2018-08-18 07:48
Since we're sharing opinions, from what the techs I've talked with have said, unless you're totally negligent or are affirmatively trying to crack your horn, cracks are more because of the particular piece of wood than because you played it for an hour and a half running after breaking it in for a month. And some oboists say that the horns that crack and get pinned properly actually sound better that the ones that never crack. Never had an instrument crack, so I don't know. I think Caroline makes sense, because you're taking a length of wooden tube that was never subjected to much abuse, and drastically altering it's temperature and humidity for however long you play it, and again after you stop. That can change the bore and the tone holes in non-constructive ways. The transmitted wisdom is that if you gradually let the wood get used to that, the changes are less drastic. Again, I don't know for sure, but I'm playing 35 year old horns from a company (B&H) reputed to have made them out of properly aged billets, and they take pretty much whatever I throw at them without any audible effect. I played these and have played others when they were new, and I didn't get that feeling of stability. It sounds to me like you're (OP) perfectly well on track, and it's really hard to resist playing new horns a lot, but the breaking in thing is supported by the instrument makers I've talked with, so I don't think there's any certainty that it isn't true.
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