Klarinet Archive - Posting 000369.txt from 1996/07

From: Nate Burk <nathan@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Corks
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:26:43 -0400

>I just recently bought a new A clarinet and I have had a lot of trouble with
>the corks on the joints, specifically simply trying to put the horn together!
> I have put grease on the joints everytime I put the blasted thing together,
>yet I spend quite a deal of time trying to get the joints apart simply
>because it's so tight.

One thing you could try is replacing the cork with a thinner kind, but I
think, if it's a brand new instrument, you'd be better off to wait until
you're sure that it's a permanant problem. If it were my horn, I'd wait 'til
the weather changed just to make sure that the instrument and/or the cork
isn't swelling. Then I'd start considering reaming or replacing the cork.

--Nate

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