Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 2002/01

From: notestaff@-----.de (David Glenn)
Subj: [kl] Loose rings
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:47:07 -0500

Alan Woodcock wrote:

> Some of the rings on my A clarinet have become loose (I mean the
> strengthening rings around the sockets and at the end of the bell, not the
> finger rings). Maybe it's the cold weather, maybe it's that I haven't
> played it for a while.
>
> Has anybody else had this problem and do you have any recommendations ?
>
> -- Alan Woodcock
>

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Alan,
have them fixed or you risk getting a crack. I do it with a bit of very thin
cloth. It's probably not the cold weather so much as the heating in the house
which is drying out the wood of your clarinet. The ring at the bottom of the
bell doesn't matter. It can turn as much as you want without coming off.
David

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