Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 1998/09

From: Chris Felts <cfelts@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Springs
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:42:59 -0400

Hello.
I'm doing a full "renovation" of an old metal clarinet I bought a while
ago, and yes, I realise that it most likely will not have a sound
quality equal to that of a wooden one. So far, everything has gone
fine, the disassebly, the re-corking, but now I'm up to spring work.
Apparently the last owner of this instrument jerry-rigged it to work
with copper wireing (or maybe overtime the springs just look and feel
like copper wiring), but I would like to get some stainless steal
springs to put in the copper "springs" place. I have the newest
Ferre's(sp?) catalog, and am ready to order a couple boxes of springs.
But before I get myself into this, are there any special tools I should
use? How do you actually re-spring an instrument "correctly"? I
imagine that you just pull out the old spring with a pliers, and slide
the new one in until its snug, but are you supposed to use a type of
glue, or do you just slide it in? Is my plan correct? Thanks.
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