Klarinet Archive - Posting 000222.txt from 1999/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Plating wear answer
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 07:48:26 -0400

Surely no-one would (or could?) plate with German silver - the keys must
be UNplated.
Roger S.

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Ken Wolman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:25:44 -0400
> From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Plating wear answer
>
> With all the discussion about key plating, I have a question regarding
> Selmer Centered Tone clarinets and the keywork.
>
> When I had the instrument adjusted at the end of 1997, the people who
> worked on it expressed surprise that it was a so-called "German Silver"
> plate job rather than real silver plating which would have been expected
> for Selmer's top-of-the-line instrument.
>
> Mine is a Q-series CT, which suggests it was made in 1957. Was this year
> and/or this horn an aberration from how Selmer usually plated their keys?
>
> Ken
>
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