Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-03-04 21:02
dorjepismo wrote:
> You'd sort of have to buy two new clarinets of the same brand
> and model and very close serial numbers, oil one and not the
> other, play them an equal amount for several years, let them
> sit for several years, and then saw both joints in half so you
> could examine the wood in detail at different depths.
Even that won't work - no two billets have the same grain characteristics and those are the most important in determining an instrument's cracking potential. Maybe if the two clarinets were cut from billets made from adjacent pieces of the same tree...
Karl
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