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RE: Swabbing mouthpieces, to do or not?

Author: beecee
Date: 2001-03-01 14:01

Well as a physics major yes, I also know a little about chemistry. Gordon is correct in stating that additives in the water may do more damage.

For erosion to occur, you must have friction (or chemistry). It is the dirt/sand and other things carried in water that does most of the erosion in nature (not all, most). Chemical reactions will also dissolve matter (water BTW is one of the best diluents).

When ones scraps a diamond across glass, there is erosion due to the friction involved between the two surfaces, and the glass is the one that erodes, due the hardness of the diamond. Now think about the hardness of hard rubber and silk. If the silk however has dirt/sand or other foreign matter embedded in it, then it will be that that scratches the mouthpiece, not the silk. That is why the advice in this thread is a clean silk swap, and a coated weight.

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