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 FAQ · Instruments & artforms

# How do I protect a wooden clarinet from cracking?

 Updated 19 October 2026

 

Buffet Crampon advises protecting a wooden **[clarinet](/en-int/instrument/clarinet)** from rapid changes in temperature and humidity: direct sun, winter outdoors, heaters and air-conditioning. It limits a new wooden clarinet to 30 minutes' playing a day for its first month and advises swabbing the bore dry after playing. Buffet Crampon notes that a properly repaired crack does not affect intonation or tone.



 

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