Symphony orchestra Philzuid has canceled three open-air concerts. “You don’t want anything to happen to the people or the instruments,” director Mette Laugs tells L1. Violins can melt from the heat and clarinets crack if they dry out quickly.
“If a violin is in the full sun on the hat shelf in a car, it will have already happened within ten minutes,” instrument maker Martin Rijsemus told L1 on Sunday. “Then the varnish on such an instrument melts, and then your instrument is really stuck to your case.”
A violin, cello or double bass can even fall apart if a certain type of glue is used, L1 writes. “A combination of high humidity and heat, then bone glue really comes loose,” says Rijsemus. As a maker and restorer, he sometimes has to deal with instruments that have been damaged by the heat or the sun.
Wooden wind instruments can also be affected by the heat. Such as the clarinet or the bassoon. These instruments are particularly affected by fluctuations in humidity. “So an instrument that is suddenly exposed to bright sunlight dries out very quickly, as it were,” says instrument maker Adams in Ittervoort to the Limburg medium. “This can cause the instrument to crack.”
A cracked clarinet can be repaired, but it costs a lot of money. “And of course it never sounds the way it once did.”
Tropical heat
After a tropical warm Saturday, temperatures will also rise locally on Sunday. In the east it can be locally 32 or 33 degrees, reports Weerplaza.
It is a lot cooler in the west. There are thunderstorms along the coast. The showers are spreading from the west across the country.