Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-08-03 15:38
To the devil with all the fancy mechanisms, hyperbolic catenary barrel bores and bells, articulated thumb keys, balanced multiple speaker keys, articulated Bb-miners!
The technical innovation most needed in clarinet land is SPIT PROOFING!
At ClarinetFest, the 4th note blown (on a new Yamaha A that had never had a propensity for clogging up started gurgling. For the next 5-days and nights, most of the performers worried and fiddled, swabbed and blotted, fighting "condensation" in tone holes.
Cigarette papers, silk swabs, air jets universal band-aids, not solutions.
Only on stage French horn plumbing repairs can compare to the nagging little floods we contend with.
Certainly our inventive compatriots can get this problem under control. --Surfactant treatments, hydrophilic guides, hydrophobic tone hole rims, ...
Bob Phillips
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