Klarinet Archive - Posting 001081.txt from 1998/04

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Cigarette papers and THREAD?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 12:46:54 -0400

I'm trying to picture the look on the neighborhood shopowner's face when
this middle-aged guy with gray hair walks into the store and asks for a
pack of Bambu...

I'm willing to try it if it works to de-wobble the two body joints on my
Selmer. I know WW&BW sells a kit from some manufacturer or other that has
precut, glue-backed replacement cork for clarinet joints. Nobody around
here seems to sell it. Oddly, the guy who runs Rod Baltimore's, a place
that specializes in fixing wood and brass instruments, told me the old pros
(I'm halfway there!:-) use sewing thread. He described winding it around
the cork, layering it with cork grease, winding some more, more cork
grease, etc., then tying it off carefully. It sounds relatively low-risk,
i.e., a lot less trouble than cutting the cork off my upper body joint and
pasting on a new pre-cut cork that I can only hope and pray fits a 41-year
old instrument.

Anyone know about this technique?

Ken

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