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Re: Pretty confused about Ridenour Clarinets

Author: PhillipS
Date: 2015-04-07 21:22

My working understanding of cracks is that it's not the speed, it's the acceleration. In other words, temperature or humidity do not crack instruments, but rapid changes in temperature do crack instruments.

Particularly if you heat up the inside of a instrument, the inside of the bore will expand much faster than the outside, which will result in a crack if there are already unstable fault lines along the grain of the wood.

I got to overhaul a fantastic instrument that I found in the bottom of a box in a music shop attic. A Buffet from the teens. It had probably been up there for 50 midwest winters. It had one small hairline crack, and that was it. I filled it, and only a very trained eye could see the work, and the rest of the clarinet looked like it had just come out of the factory. Incredible instrument. But, if cold and heat themselves caused cracks, that thing would have been in a million pieces. And what about all the woodwind players in history before humidity control?

I think a wood instrument will be fine, as long as you make an effort to not leave it in the cold. And if you do, to make sure it comes to room temperature, and that you warm it up with your hands on the outside before playing.

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