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Re: Playing in the Cold

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2018-10-23 22:03

Hi Paul. I believe David was referring to tenon corks. Things do happen to them when they get good and cold. A poster mentioned playing a cold clarinet and having the bell fall off. I once had the bottom tenon cork come unglued on my plastic clarinet when I assembled it for an outdoor Christmas concert at about 10-deg F - the clarinet was already cold. There hadn't been any other noticeable antecedent to that event.

Hi Dreamer. It no doubt is about expansion and contraction. Different materials have different coefficients of thermal expansion, meaning they expand and contract different amounts as temperature changes. Metal probably changes more than wood or plastic, and I'm guessing that (some) plastics or hard rubber change more than wood or cork. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can confirm.

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