Klarinet Archive - Posting 000570.txt from 1998/02

From: alchev@-----.com (Al Chiavarini)
Subj: Re: Loose screws
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 08:32:13 -0500

Try a dab of clear nail polish over the screw head and on the post. It
works for me!!
Al Chiavarini
alchev=juno

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 02:39:06 -0800 "Jason Hsien"
<jasonavhs@-----.com> writes:
>I've been wondering if there was any solution to the problem of screws
>becoming loose on clarinets and bass clarinets. I know I can always
>rescrew
>them back in, but sometimes, if I go for a week or so forgetting, they
>just
>pop out (which happened, to my horror, at a recent rehearsal. Thank
>goodness
>I found it again and put it back in)
>
>Do any of you have hints on techniques to keep those darn screws in? I
>mean,
>obviously, they won't stay in forever, since we are pressing down on
>keys
>all the time, but this is ridiculous. This never happened on my
>plastic
>clarinet, but since I moved over to wood clarinet and bass clarinet,
>this
>has happened more often.
>
>Thanks!
>
>P.S. Does anyone know of a good Klarinet-ish Saxophone Discussion List
>and/or web page? I'm trying to find out the value of this Selmer Mark
>VI
>Tenor I've been playing.
>
>
>Jason Hsien
>jasonavhs@-----.com
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