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Re: Tips for altissimo on Eb clarinet

Author: Hunter_100
Date: 2022-09-26 22:15

It is not the temperature alone that will crack it. Its a combination of both temperature and humidity. The inside bore will expand from warm breath as well as from absorbing moisture from your breath/spit. The bore will expand more than the outside of the barrel which is still cold and dry which creates tension that will split/crack the wood. The expansion pressure from the cork and tenon on the top joint further adds to the stress. The metal rings contain the expansion so the wood does not split. That is why all-wood barrels are usually massively larger than their ringed counterparts, they have to withstand a lot of force.

The fact the ring came off in the first place tells me the wood dried out and shrunk a lot, which means it will likely revert back to original size once you start playing it and humidify the wood again.

If no one has played it in a long time, you should follow the same protocols that are used to break in a new clarinet, i.e. only play for short durations and swab frequently.

Tell your band director to fix their school instrument. The school should have a repair person and a budget for these sorts of things, and since it is the start of the year they probably haven't spent all the money yet...

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