Klarinet Archive - Posting 000171.txt from 2002/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Loose rings
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:38:38 -0500

The cause is usually dryness - winter's low humidity aggravated by the dry
air heat inside most of our homes. Shimming the barrel and the middle rings
with thin paper, cloth (as David Glenn suggested), or whatever your favorite
material is will do the trick if you know how to do this operation. Often,
however, simply humidifying the inside of your clarinet case while the
instruments are put away will do as good a job with much less effort. You
can use a dampened (not wet) Dampit or pieces of orange peel. The other
advantage of humidifying is that it will also improve the bell ring's fit.
It's probably true there's no danger in having that ring loose, but if it's
loose enough to vibrate you can get some annoying buzzing and ringing.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Woodcock [mailto:alan.woodcock@-----.fr]
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:22 PM
> To: Klarinet List
> Subject: [kl] Loose rings
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>
> 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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