Klarinet Archive - Posting 001149.txt from 1998/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Cigarette papers and THREAD?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 09:44:29 -0400

At 12:46 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
>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?
>
Yes, but as I heard it you use dental floss. A good emergency repair which
can last a fairly long time. String joints are used routinely on bassoons.
Skip the precut cork unless you have some idea of what you are doing.

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