Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-12-20 02:45
For me, you can tell if the clarinet is too cold to play if when you pick it up the keys are really cold to the touch. If that is that case, you can hold each joint at various places (with the clarinet together or apart), warming it up until any point you touch feels room temperature(ish). At that point, you can start playing on it (or just blowing some air into it to really warm up the interior) bit by bit at first.
What to avoid at all costs is forgetting your clarinet in the trunk of your car which was parked outside overnight in temperatures below freezing. Then grabbing it out of the trunk and start playing on it five minutes later. Your breath is about 100 degrees Fahrenheit so you don't want a frigid piece of wood to have that rolling down the center of it.
......................Paul Aviles
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