Klarinet Archive - Posting 001150.txt from 2000/12

From: "Doug Sears" <dsears@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Moth-eaten pads & moth balls
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:13:44 -0500

I once put the more modern type of mothballs (para-dichlorobenzene) in a case
with a wooden clarinet with nickel-plated keys, and there was no visible
damage after a year. However, it took a _long_ time, maybe another year,
before the smell was completely gone, so I'd advise against it. You could use
a tightly closed plastic bag to keep bugs from getting in.

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

>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

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