Klarinet Archive - Posting 000433.txt from 1998/09

From: Felix1297@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 14 Sep 1998 08:15:02 -0000 Issue 485
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 12:24:08 -0400

In a message dated 98-09-14 04:15:37 EDT, you write:

<< Regular application of bore oil early in the instrument's life will help
> prevent the wood fibres absorbing the moisture, and swelling and
> contracting excessively and unevenly.

See above. I doubt that this is true. Can anyone prove it?
>>
Dear All,

Regular Application of bore oil early in the instrument's life will not help
prevent the wood fibres absorbing the moisture,It will make the wood work and
move. Like Ed said in his respons the grenadilla wood or Mpingo is very oily
and it need time to dry and it will certainly not happend after few months. I
don't recommend oiling a new instrument or old instrument(exept when it REALLy
need it) because like I said above it will make the wood work and move.
Sometime nothing will happend but often the wood will swell or schrink and the
craking problem will appear. I don't say that oil will make crack I say it
will make the wood move.

Musically yours

Francois Kloc
Woodwind Product Specialist
Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments Inc.

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