Klarinet Archive - Posting 000070.txt from 1969/12

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Plating of clarinets
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500


I had a customer that owned a bar on the beach so had his sax keys plated in chrome. He forgot to plug the ends of the hinge tubes and wound up with the insides of his hinge tubes plated in chrome too.

It wore the daylights out of his steel rods.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2010 2:33 PM
>To: Klarinet <klarinet@-----.com>
>Subject: [kl] Plating of clarinets
>
>At one time, I had a full Boehm B-flat instrument with chrome plated keys. The instrument glistened and needed only an occasional rub down to remain bright and shiny. I don't know why no one has discussed this option. My instrument is now owned by a Japanese player to whom I sold the pair of full Boehm clarinets, both of which descended to low E-flat (written).
>
>Gold is really deliriously gorgeous , but it requires a double plating. My FOX basset horn (now owned by Keith Bowen) was double plated, though his essentially identical instrument was only single plated. I think he had more problems with his gold plating than I ever did.
>
>The former clarinet teacher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, John Denman, had gold plated keys on his clarinets and it never lasted. The gold delaminated itself from the keys and curled up. Looked awful. Who got his instruments after his death?
>
>Dan Leeson
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