Klarinet Archive - Posting 000928.txt from 2000/11

From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Corrosion
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:22:06 -0500

I have just had a long and fruitless discussion with
the Head of R and D/Quality Control/Customer Liaison
at Boosey and Hawkes HQ, (he probably has many other hats),
about deep key corrosion on my R13s
They don't actually "do business with the public".....
That is not the end it .

He says it is not a widespread problem, like cracking.
Green Line has solved cracking.
Replacement keys are very expensive.
Replating is expensive and requires extensive post-production
work - filing and repadding.
My skin pH is non-typical. That is the main problem.
Must I play in surgical gloves?
Monkey metal will do.
They are not researching the metallurgy of corrosion resistant keys
Try "nickel" or "silver", - - - "trade abbreviations".

It is almost the moment to decide to buy a pair of Howarth's

What I lack is his overall perspective.
How many people really suffer from key corrosion
after 5-10 years of use of a Buffet, a Selmer, a Leblanc?

Soothing brow now. Thanks

Mike Bryant
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+44 (0) 20 8390 3236
http://www.bryant14.demon.co.uk
Rosewood Publications url:
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and http://www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk

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