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Author: clarinet d'amore
Date: 2004-09-28 23:21
how do you break in a wooden instrument? also what is the difference between stained and unstained wood? also, everyone says a wood clarinet will break if played in the outside but my friend has a wood leblanc clarinet and she has played it outside for 2 years. she even played in the rain. i tell you no lie. but she has not needed to have her clarinet fixed. i tell, being the section leader, that she needs a plastic one but she has yet to get one. and still she has played her wood clarinet for 2 years and once in the rain and has had no problems. i don't know if her clarinet is student or intermediate. its kinda heavy and i think it is intermediate. its all now just black but its dark brown and black. it so beautiful. i;m kinda jealous. anyway how do you break in wood instruments? what is the difference between unstained and stained wood? and why hasn't my friend's clarinet cracked?
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Author: Dori
Date: 2004-09-29 00:37
clarinet d'amore wrote:
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what is the difference between unstained and stained wood? and why hasn't my friend's clarinet cracked?
Stained wood means color has been added to it. Just for general reference, paint applies a layer of color while stain penetrates into the wood. I hope no one has actually painted their clarinet, but for example. wood furniture can be painted or stained.
As for cracking, let me start by saying there is no guarantee that a wooden instrument played only indoors will definitly not crack while one played outside certainly will. The concern is that wood is affected by outdoors there is usually more variation in temperature and humidity
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Author: Dori
Date: 2004-09-29 00:58
Oops, hit the post button by mistake! Allow me to rephrase that last paragraph.
Wood is affected by temperature and humidity, which usually varies more outdoors than in. Especially if the outside air is cool and you are blowing warm air into the instrument, then the wood is trying to expand and contract differently on the outside than on the inside. The wood can take only so much stress, then it comes apart (cracks). Plastic is affected to a lesser degree.
There is no guarantee that a wood instrument played only indoors will never crack, while one played outside definitly will. However, since there is an alternative why risk a beautiful instrument?
Dori
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Author: richard
Date: 2004-09-29 10:32
How to break in a wooden clarinet ? See the Link below please,
http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Equipment/Care/Break-in.html
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