Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2002/07

From: "Kimber" <wolfcry01@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] cork failure
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 01:05:26 -0400

This is the third message I have read about using floss. You three have
twisted my arm too hard and I guess I'll have to try it to stop the
agonizing pain... ;) just kidding. I will keep that in mind when the glue
wears out. I have only used the glue once, and that was early on in the
school year. I practice my clarinet exactly two to three hours a day, when
I'm not working in constructing the garden, and so that is why the cork came
off, that and this is the very same clarinet my mother used in school. When
I started it was 18 years old, so now it's around 21...years in our family
at least. So...lol
Kimber
----- Original Message -----
From: William Wright <w7wright@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] cork failure

<><> Sandee Soloway wrote:
Some one asked about using Elmers glue for cork failure. I guess if
would hold the cork OK, I don't know about the effect on the wood of the
horn.

Kimber's question mentioned a plastic horn, and she was wondering which
adhesives may eat into the plastic. (I don't know the answer myself.)

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<><> I use dental floss (the thin kind, not the tape) and give the cork
several winds around.

I would have wondered about this except that when I bought a wood flute
last year, it had no cork at all. The joints were sealed with
floss-like linen thread that was heavily impregnated with wax after the
string was applied. It works okay.

Cheers,
Bill

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