Klarinet Archive - Posting 000662.txt from 1998/12

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Plastic smell
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:28:53 -0500

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:43:50 EST, Girlie2179@-----.com wrote:
>I have a question I was wondering if you could help me with is there anyway
>you can get a clarinet to smell better? Mines not wood and it smells like
>plastic is there anyway I can get it to smell different?
>thank you for reading this,

I purchased an Eb and an alto clarinet at an estate sale, both of which reeked
terribly. I went to the local drug store and found a couple of boxes of little
cedar balls, designed to moth-proof drawers. I put a half dozen in both cases
and changed them every month or so. It took a while (six months), but they did
help the smell!

Somewhere in here, there has to be a joke about cedar balls...

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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