Klarinet Archive - Posting 001147.txt from 2000/12

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Moth-eaten pads & moth balls
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:58:48 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BEresman@-----.com]
>
> I went to my "music room" and pulled out an old A clarinet i'm no longer
> using because i find i might have a buyer for it. I wanted to
> check it out
> before i commit to selling it. I found that a couple of pads needed to be
> replaced due to the efforts of hungry vermin. I inspected my other
> instruments and found several to have the same problem. My question is
> this: is there an adverse effect to an instrument (be it clarinet, sax or
> flute) to having moth balls in the case? I wouldn't do that with
> instruments currently in use, but those which are stored for months at a
> time. Does the naptha damage lacquer, tarnish silver, dissolve
> grenadilla,
> whatever?
>
> Brent Eresman
> YSI Precision Temperature

I put mothballs in an old plastic clarinet's case as it was becomming food
for many creatures. I opened the case several months later and the bugs
were certainly gone, BUT the keys were tarnished horribly. It took hours of
work to try to clean them back up.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Freelance Clarinetist and Recording Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
benmaas@-----.com
http://www.fifthcircle.com

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