Klarinet Archive - Posting 000596.txt from 2003/03

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] oiling
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:00:56 -0500

I think that the version of the story I heard was that it was Hans Moennig
that did this.

Ed

> From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 15:57:44 -0600
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Subject: [kl] oiling
>
> Certainly I don't want to be in the position of disagreeing too
> vociferously with many of the experts on the list, but I have heard a
> contrasting viewpoint on this. One of the instrument manufacturers (it
> might have been Buffet, or perhaps the oboe manufacturer Loree) did an
> experiment. They soaked a piece of granadilla in oil for a VERY long
> time - as I recall, over a year. Then, they sliced the wood so that
> they could view a cross section. The conclusion was that the oil had
> hardly penetrated the wood at all.

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