Klarinet Archive - Posting 000929.txt from 2000/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Corrosion
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:22:07 -0500

Dear Michael et al.,
There are just a few flecks of green on the plain German silver keys
on my Buffet B flat - and it dates from 1897!
Perhaps some combinations of metals now used can form electrolytic cells.
roger S.

In message <01c059fe$fd12b200$LocalHost@-----.org writes:
> 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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