Klarinet Archive - Posting 000959.txt from 2000/11

From: "Kloc, Francois" <Francois.Kloc@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: klarinet Digest 29 Nov 2000 21:08:52 -0000 Issue 2717
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:29:35 -0500

Dear Mike,

Who did you talk to? What was his name?

Francois Kloc
Manager of Woodwinds North America
Boosey & Hawkes Musical Instruments, Inc.

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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