Klarinet Archive - Posting 000785.txt from 1998/09

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] oil?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:47:32 -0400

At the risk of flogging this dead horse again, when I had my CT repaired
back last December, the guy said to run bore oil through it on a swab about
twice a year to keep the wood moist.

Is this trip necessary? I've seen arguments that certain kinds of horns
don't need oiling, that it's actually harmful, Don't Try This At Home, etc.
Doees anyone have any experience with older Selmer clarinets? IS bore oil
at six month intervals a reasonable idea?

Ken

Kenneth Wolman "From the Meadowlands":
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649
"Whenever a person is able to keep intact those small particles of his real
self, nourish them, and then channel their energies into another direction,
he redeems himself because redemption means to salvage oneself, and each man
does this whenever he restructures the 'noes' of his life under the
commanding impulse of a new 'yes'."
--Jose I. T. Id=EDgoras, "Ignatius of Loyola: The Pilgrim Saint"

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