Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

There was some talk on another thread recently about swabbing the shakuhachi after every practice session. What I'm wondering is if maybe it should be swabbed more frequently. That is because with all the talk on the flutemaking thread about how important the surface of the bore is it's apparent to me that the coating of fine condensation particals along with the little rivers and streams inside the flute may have an affect on the sound. As it is I generally swab more often than that because sometimes the thumbhole gets soaked and keeps the finger seal over the thumbhole from being broken as soon as it should when I lift my thumb for notes that require it.

It was really about a half year ago or so I started thinking about it when I saw Ned Rothenberg swab his clarinet about 10 different times during a performance. He was using a lot of extended techniques in the concert, my only guess for the reason he swabbed so frequently is that the clarinet wouldn't respond as well to such demanding playing otherwise.