Klarinet Archive - Posting 000975.txt from 2000/11

From: "Jim Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Corrosion
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:06:46 -0500

I bought my Selmers in 1961. Some of the silver started to discolor quite
quickly. My repairman buffed and polished them and told me to keep a silver
cloth in the case. When I finished playing, after swabbing out, run the
silver cloth over the keys lightly before closing the case. I did. They've
not been polished since, and still look fine. (Could use some other
adjustments right now, though. <g>)

Second thought: Years ago, when I taught in California, I had a student who
had a very corrosive agent in his sweat. (It was a family problem, and he
had it from both sides!) A repairman took his clarinet apart and sprayed
... something on the keys and reassembled them. It solved the problem (at
least for the next 18 months that I taught him.) I don't know beyond that
point, but that was a vast improvement for him. I'm sorry that I don't
remember what was sprayed on. I now have trouble remembering what I had for
lunch last week. I can't remember what was sprayed on a clarinet 25 years
ago. <g>

Hope one of these ideas help.

Jim Hobby

>From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>

>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 .

><snip>

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