Klarinet Archive - Posting 001000.txt from 2004/07

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Water in tone holes
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:50:04 -0400

Christy,

I haven't checked the archives, but I think (unless Walter or Clarke or
another experienced instrument tech wants to chime in here) you should look
to see what opinions have been expressed in the past about using bore oil in
this way. I think, with no first-hand evidence or experience to cite, that
you could end up with more trouble than you're resolving. Oil does repel
water, but it also attracts dust, could be smeared onto pads by your swab
and might (at least in my imagination) end up being moved by normal swabbing
to unintended places where it actually *guides* water toward tone holes.

Clarinets don't play at their best under the conditions you described and,
if you have to play under those conditions anyway, you may just have to put
up with the need to swab very often. Be certain whenever possible that
before you blot the water out of a hole with whatever absorbent paper you
use that you swab the water out of the bore first, or it will just run back
into the same hole. If I have time, I usually put the paper under the closed
pad and, while it's there, run the swab through on the theory (again, no
pictures to prove I'm really accomplishing anything special) that I may
actually push a little more of the water into the hole and onto the paper,
instead of pushing it into the hole covered by a waterproof pad.

My 2 cents worth...

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christy Erickson [mailto:perickso@-----.net]
>
>
> I'm going to try the curler paper and also a little bore oil around
> those tone holes.
>
> Christy

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