Klarinet Archive - Posting 000962.txt from 1997/07

From: YeomanHuff@-----.com
Subj: Re: Float Test and cologne/Koln
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 00:18:32 -0400

In a message dated 97-07-31 00:24:22 EDT, pharmacy@-----.com writes:

<< Roger,
Thanks for the advice. I took all the keys off and continued to float
it for awhile. Nothing much happened to determine wood or plastic one
way or the other, so I took my friend's advice about drying it; I
carefully disassembled it, blew out the excess water and placed it on a
cookie sheet. It's now in the oven on "warm" overnight to dry it
thoroughly. Is there anything I need to know about putting the keys back
on?
Thanks,
Carol >>

Oh, my God! I can't believe that I am actually reading this!! I can't even
begin to imagine the ways these keys were incompetantly taken off, never mind
the way they're going to be put back on! And the stress you might have just
put a wood clarinet through only to determine if it is wood, when you could
have taken it to a competant repair person who would have told you in thirty
seconds what it (was) worth!

Quite frankly, I hope the clarinet was plastic piece of crap, because if was
wood, you have done it a great disservice.

Please, please, please, don't ANYBODY else do this!! Take your clarinet to a
qualified repair person before you go soaking it and removing keys to do
"home repair" or analysis.

Shuddering,
Teri Herel