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Re: marching in winter - inauguration

Author: DrH2O
Date: 2008-12-12 15:50

Thanks for all the advice. My daughter is still jumping out of her skin with excitement. I have a couple of legere reeds that I'll dig out for her. The band doesn't issue any gloves and I gather that clarinetists are one of the lucky few who have to have the fingertips exposed - so we'll hunt something down and cut the tips off. We use hand warmers for skiing with a glove liner to keep the packet from being too hot on the skin - so maybe a two-layer approach will work for marching as long as they're both thin. Surgical gloves would keep the wind out, but doesn't moisture accumulate inside and make your hands cold? I guess maybe you're too cold to sweat at that point! I suspect that the standing around time is likely to be the coldest part. Once they start marching it shouldn't be too bad or at least they'll be too excited to notice.

Tuning should be interesting. Hadn't thought about how the cold affects different instruments. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the clarinet plays a couple of cents flat for every degree below 72oF. So if it's 40 degrees outside will they really be about 60 cents flat? How different is it for the different wind instruments?

Anne
Clarinet addict

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