Klarinet Archive - Posting 001343.txt from 1998/10

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key platings
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:43:58 -0500

-----Original Message-----
From: Edwin V. Lacy <el2@-----.edu>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Key platings

>On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, J. Blake Arrington wrote:
>
>> My silver plated keys make my clarinet so heavy that I am
>> developing tendonitis. So be careful if you get silver plated keys.
>
>I think you will have to look elsewhere for the contributing factors to
>your developing tendonitis. The difference in weight between silver
>plated and nickel plated keys cannot be more than a few grams, and I'm not
>sure that the nickel wouldn't be heavier.

I agree that it is probably some other factor that is contributing to the
tendonitis rather than the weight of the plating but just for the record
silver is heavier than nickel (unless you use more of it).

Density of "pure" silver @-----.379 pounds per cubic inch
Density of "pure" nickel @-----.321 pounds per cubic inch

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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