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Re: Chasing off tigers

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2019-10-30 21:53

Somebody did test. It was in a thread awhile back. They soaked an old barrel in oil for a year or so, and then sawed it in half to see whether the oil had penetrated, and reported that it did not seem to have. The problem with any kind of rigorous test, though, is that to do it scientifically, you would have to play roughly equally on multiple clarinets that you treat in different ways over several years, controlling for possible variations in the behavior of individual billets of wood. It isn't really a realistic proposition. I'd tend to trust the experience of long-time techs such as Caroline, in one of the other threads, over opinions and sawing parts in half, simply because they see instruments that have been treated all sorts of different ways, and what the results have been.

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