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Author: michal
Date: 2007-01-18 19:05
Dear Clarinet friends!
I am looking for a solution for a big problem: I often get to play in places where the hall is cold and not heated. It is mostly problemetic since the danger is having cracks etz.. and more so when I have to switch clarinets and one clarinet gets to stand in sometimes frozen hall. So I want to know if anyone has an idea how to maintain the heat of the clarinet while it is on the stand?And maybe how to heat up the clarinet when there is no heater around and I have to play?
I would appreciate any thought you have on this matter!
Thank you all,
Michal.
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-01-18 21:21
Really Really long Tube Socks for those cold days.... =) shouldn't be that big of an issue as wood breathes in temperature changes. Wood will crack if it doens't have enough moisture in it's wood, or rapid changes in weather. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just gradually warm it up.
Tube socks would probably work
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Arnoldstang
Date: 2007-01-18 22:05
One thing you can do is prevent wind chill happening. Build a three sided plexiglass enclosure in front of the clarinet that's on the stand. Maybe even 3 1/2 sides. I suggested plexiglass if looks are important.....otherwise wood is fine.
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Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2007-01-18 22:33
I have no association with Altieri in Denver, CO but they made a "cozy" which is a highly insulated tube that fits over your clarinet on the stand and will keep a warmed up clarinet in playing condition for a least an hour in frigid temperatures. I bought one a few years ago but they are currently not shown in their catalog but a heavy quilted fabric - maybe two layers thick - could be easily sewn into a tube which could fit over the clarinet on the stand. Altieri makes custom bags and probably has the template on the shelf somewhere so a call to them might yield some help. Altieri - Telephone - 303-291-0658
L. Omar Henderson
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-01-18 22:44
...or get a piece of heat pipe insulating tube (those grey PU foam thingies) of adequate measurements and slide it over the clarinet. Or a cardboard poster tube...
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Ben
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2007-01-19 00:42
Good ideas above, there should be patentable prospects for "really novel " methods. All I could think of was the "put it inside your jacket" outdoors method, at least the U J and barrel [most vulnerable pieces]. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Ben
Date: 2007-01-19 01:39
They're still on the Alteri website:
http://www.altieribags.com/ww_accessories.html
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Author: sdr
Date: 2007-01-19 01:39
Since heat rises, your tubes should be closed at the top.
-sdr
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Author: D
Date: 2007-01-19 05:29
I always just wedge it between my legs.......and I can't think if a better way to phrase that at half 6 in the morning, sorry.
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