Klarinet Archive - Posting 000988.txt from 1997/08

From: "David C. Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: re:increase your grease
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 09:12:16 -0400

I hate to bust on a company, but I have found that Selmer cork grease is
bad! It does not absorb well, and if you use the slightest amount, it
bunches up at the end of the cork. Selmer does have a liquid cork grease
that I do like, and use on students corks if they are drying out (from lack
of greasing).
If you grease your corks too much, you will get a mess that will do
everything from make it more difficult to assemble the corks (thickness of
the caked grease) to having a clarinet that may fall apart easily, to
having extra cork grease ooze out of the joints, and get on the keywork.-
What a mess!
D.B.

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 16:47:45 -0700
From: pharmacy <pharmacy@-----.com>
Subject: Increase your Grease

I haven't seen this subject approached at all in the short time I've been
a list member, but I may as well throw it in there and show everyone how
green I am. Is one kind of cork grease better than another, or are they
all pretty much the same? Can one grease one's corks too much? My clarinet
goes together with some degree of difficulty and I tend to grease the
corks quite often. Is this OK? Another question: what is cork grease made
of? I kid you not, my dog loves to eat cork grease! Is it safe? I don't
feed him a steady diet of it but he gets the occasional nibble when I'm
not looking. (No, Bill and Scott, his jaws do not go together more easily
after this.) Well, it's a dumb set of questions but I would like some
input on this. Oh Lord, it's hard to be a rookie!
Carol