Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2019-12-28 01:50
Hi Chris P. I do pretty much all the things you list, but one item has occasionally raised a question in my mind.
After I rinse the mouthpiece in water, I dry it with a facial tissue or paper towel inside and out. However, I'm aware that those paper products have abrasives in them, not by design really, but just because the process for making them isn't very tightly controlled. It's probably embedded "dirt."
People with eyeglasses are aware that if you wipe your glasses with paper towels etc. then the glass surfaces will accrue light, barely visible scratches that eventually will impair their transparency. The damage is visible under magnification.
Therefore I wonder about similar abrasions to the inside of a mouthpiece gradually building up and altering, if not the shape in any significant way, then perhaps the surfaces.
Back to the original post, I believe in drying the clarinet after use - bore, tenons, sockets. I take time to blow out tone holes too. But I've very rarely had the energy to practice multiple times per day.
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