Klarinet Archive - Posting 000765.txt from 1998/05

From: Christian Budde <emv080@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Cleaning keys
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 07:53:02 -0400

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Dodgshun family wrote:

> I'm about to completely dismantle my bass clarinet to clean it, and I was
> wondering if there's any particular way to a) remember how to put it all
> back together and b) clean the keys. It's not actually my bass, and I don't

Anna,

I don't own a bass clarinet, but every year or so I take of all keys from
my Bb to clean them, because they get a slight tarnish (kind of yellow).

Simply put all keys you took off on a (big enough) table sorted by the
order you took them off and put all screws back into the keys. Once you
started you will see, which keys have to be taken off first.

Don't let the cat in and don't wait a week before putting everything
together again :-)

HTH,
Christian

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