Klarinet Archive - Posting 001098.txt from 1998/10

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Slippery Keys
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:38:52 -0500

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From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Slippery Keys

>On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Dee D. Hays wrote:
>
>> My daughter's keys are chrome plated while mine are nickel plated
>
>Your daughter's clarinet keys are CHROME plated? Was her
>clarinet made that way? I've never heard of a clarinet that
>was made with chrome plated keys. In a Klarinet discussion
>a couple of years ago suggested that chrome would be too
>slippery to be practical. Apparently this isn't entirely
>true.
>
>Neil

Many beginner plastic clarinets have been chrome plated as kids like the
super shiney keys (I think the major names use nickel tho). However, I
doubt that this clarinet was made that way as the instrument is not less
than 50 years old, is of intermediate quality, and is wood. When the older
daughter had worked diligently at clarinet for a year, her reward was to
have this instrument sent out and totally overhauled and re-plated. Since
she wanted her horn to look as nice as the other kids instruments (shiney
keys), they asked if we wanted chrome, nickel, or silver. She wanted chrome
so that's what we selected. Neither she nor I nor my younger daughter, who
now uses that instrument, have had any problems being too slippery.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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