Klarinet Archive - Posting 000985.txt from 2000/11

From: Mark Gustavson <mgustav@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 30 Nov 2000 09:15:01 -0000 Issue 2718
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:15:15 -0500

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> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:29:35 -0600
> To: "'klarinet@-----.org>
> From: "Kloc, Francois" <Francois.Kloc@-----.com>
> Subject: RE: klarinet Digest 29 Nov 2000 21:08:52 -0000 Issue 2717
> Message-ID: <13A98E7A7FB9D311A0230090274EA69C24A3F2=localhost>
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> 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

I haven't been following this thread carefully but I would like to add my recent
experience with R-13 plating. Two years ago I purchased a new R-13. At this
point all of the ring keys have corroded and some of the rods are exposing the
copper beneath the plating. What's unusual is that my older R-13's don't have
this problem. All of my R-13's are nickel plated. This leads me to believe that
Buffet is doing something different and it isn't good. Also after playing my
finger tips will have dark rings on them from the key rings.

Mark Gustavson

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