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Bass bore blow-dryer

Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-03-15 21:00

I came up with something which efficiently dries out the bore on a bass clarinet without the dismantling hastle to pass the swab . I doubt I'm the first to use this method and a good designer could no doubt come up with something more compact and better designed than my system .I used a small centrifuge fan adding an electronic timer and flexible tube to feed a gentle air flow through the bore......You just remove the mouthpiece , inset the pipe and hit the start button and its dry as a bone in 15 mins .i don't see this device as entirely replacing swabbing however , as it only removes moisture , but I believe that it works better than swabbing to eliminate moisture inside the tone holes .
I came up with this idea for my wife ,who tends to squeeze in a good part of her practice time by grabbing odd moments in her busy day, but then runs off leaving her bass wet in the stand. I found myself acasionally checking the bore grumpily and half expecting a parrot to take my eye out .

I imagine a refined design of this dyer as being like a small , compact hairdryer that just fits in place of the mouth piece , only with a timer and not a heating element , although a very mild warming of the air would no doubt speed up the drying time.Perhaps bore blow-dryers are already being marketed . All I know is that it both works really well and is very convenient .

Julian Griffiths
Tel. 34 696 798 853

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2023-03-15 21:00