Klarinet Archive - Posting 000267.txt from 2004/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Key question
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 20:42:26 -0400

It's good that you solved *that* key noise.

The plastic sleeves I think you were describing are placed over the pins
that link the left-hand levers to the keys on the bottom of the instrument.
They are there to eliminate the clacking that results when the bare metal
pins move back and forth in their holes. When they wear out/get brittle/fall
apart/etc. you end up with metal moving in metal and key noise. If yours are
as old as you suggest, replacing them might make the keys even quieter. It
is a do-it-yourself operation for many of us, but you need silencer
material. In the "olden days" most of the time it was the same membrane used
on pads - I still use the skin of an old pad when I replace these silencers.
They just have to be cut carefully to avoid too much excess material, which
can bind the whole thing up. Of course a decent tech can do this for you in
about half a minute. Some newer instruments come with factory-installed
teflon coatings or the pins themselves are actually made of plastic. Might
not be the solution to the problem you wrote about, but it's something
you'll sooner or later need to deal with.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mlmarmer [mailto:mlmarmer@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:44 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Key question
>
>
> Key noise is solved.
>
> It was a sticky pad, that I was able to unstick with a wet paper
> towel and I
> held the key down on it for a bit. Repeated it with a dry paper
> towel. No
> more noise.
>
> I thought this problem was solved last year, when I was told to
> stop taking
> a life saver after dinner, as the syrup got into the silvia!
>
> Now, I need to go to Home Depot for some J B Weld to fix that I
> broke, when
> I took it out to look at that plastic.
>
> Just kidding, I didn't take the key out and all is fine! No broken key.
>
> Mike Marmer
>
>
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