Klarinet Archive - Posting 000117.txt from 2003/03

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] cork grease and legere reeds
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:23:58 -0500

> Does STP give you a really smooth twisting motion of the joints or do they
> stick a little until you pass some threshold force? And whoever suggested
> to you that STP works well as cork grease? Does it work better than that
> stuff you buy in shoe stores? (Skunk oil? Beaver grease? can't
> remember) I'm not challenging that, you understand. I buy chamois from
> Pep Boys, cut it into swab-size pieces and tie on a shoe lace with a
solder
> filled screw at the other end.
>
> 8-)
>
> Oliver

Ollie,
It's REALLY smooth. No sticking at all. My woodwind
repair guy, who also plays in band, quintet, and a little
trio with me, also happens to be a motorcycle enthusiast.....
so he uses it. He learned the instrument repair trade from
his father, and has been at it for over 50 years....he once even
repaired a flute that had been run over and flattened pretty
badly! (He wouldn't have bothered, but it was a $5000
flute)...so he knows woodwinds pretty well. Every time I
have taken my horn to him it always comes back with this
"stuff" on the corks.....
Sue
P.S. Actually, I've never compared it with skunk oil.........

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