Klarinet Archive - Posting 000745.txt from 2003/05

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg K=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=hner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Shellac in bores
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 03:42:28 -0400

Am 28.05.2003 23:03 Uhr schrieb "Keith" unter <100012.1302@-----.com>:

> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:16:50 -0400
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Mark and Walter,
>
> Yes, the greater susceptibility of cocobolo to moisture was exactly why
> Steve shellacs the bore. I thought I said that, sorry not to be clear.
>
> Georg's comment about Hammerschmidt clarinets and removing the lacquer
> after "breaking in" seeems to be for a different reason.

I talked about Wurlitzer (I don't know definitely if Hammerschmidt does this
nowadays). What I forgot to tell is that the kind of Lacquer they use gets
away partly in the first year (depending on your practice hours). So in this
breaking in the clarinet the lacquer gets away (partly), the wood gets used
to the moisture and when they do the first overhaul the rest of the remainig
lacquer is removed because it is not necessary any longer. The bore is
afterwards polished with wax as far as Iknow.

Best Georg

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