Klarinet Archive - Posting 000679.txt from 2001/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 11 Jan 2001 09:15:01 -0000 Issue
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:54:07 -0500

At 10:26 AM 1/21/2001 -0500, Dee Hays wrote:
>Many of today's "nickel" keys are merely nickel plating over a cheaper base
>metal. So a scratch would be equally difficult to repair short of
>replating.

The base material is the same as it has always been, the so-called "German
silver," a brass alloy with a high nickel content, also called nickel
silver, although there is no silver in it. While it was typical at one
time (into the 1950's or so?) to sell clarinets with the bare metal keys,
all manufacturers now plate the keys, either with nickel or silver. Who
knows why. Maybe just because they look shinier and "newer" that way.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
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