Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Key platings
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 10:06:08 -0500

At 01:54 AM 11/1/98 -0500, Mike Moors wrote:
>How about reactions to acids in fingers? Has anyone else had the body
>chemistry to destroy the silver plating right off of the Ab key and or F
>key besides me??????? I'm a nickle man now. I've been thinking of gold
>plating. It works for Pete Fountain.
>
And some people have reactions with nickel, too. For them, silver is the
usual solution, or even chrome. The nickel-plated keys on my Series 10
always look yucky, and have since shortly after I bought it. But my older
horn, which I had replated a couple of years before I got the 10, always
looks nice and shiny. I hadn't noticed the keys being especially slippery,
but I wonder now whether they were plated with chrome instead of nickel?

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