Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 1998/01

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Moisture in the clarinet pads
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:27:19 -0500

Neil Leupold wrote:
> The second way of preventing moisture from accumulating in a tone-
> hole is to have the bore of your clarinet "painted" by a competent
> repair technician. What does (s)he use? Is it simply bore oil?
> Hopefully somebody else on the list knows with certainty.

According to the page I have on sneezy
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/Study/WaterInTheHoles.html
it's bore oil. I have 3 short articles on that page, one
by David Blumberg, one by Jim Fay quoting Hans Moennig, and one
by Ian Seddon quotingfrom the book "The Clarinet and Clarinet
Playing" by Robert Willaman. I don't really think a tech is
required for this - all the articles refer to "painting"
oil around the offending tone holes, and with care there
isn't much that can go wrong.
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