Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2000/01

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] re: Clarinet Maker
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:31:59 -0500

Ben Maas wrote:
The plating on the keys not only feels different from metal to metal, but
>it
>>seems that there are subtle differences in sound.

Then Brent Eresman wrote:

>I have a very old LeBlanc whose keys had become very dull and tarnished, so
>i cleaned them up and lacquered them black. Now the instrument has a
>darker sound...

And I conclude that in the different feel of the plating on the keys, the
mouthpiece takes on the distinctive taste of baloney.

Don Longacre

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