Klarinet Archive - Posting 000030.txt from 2005/02

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] loose barrel rings
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:05:00 -0500

Jim doesn't tell us where he lives, but last summer I spent several weeks
in a California town with temperatures in the 90s and relative humidity
around 5%. All the rings on my instruments began to get loose, so I put
both instruments in a garbage bag with a dish of water and a wash rag
soaking in the water (mainly to keep it from sloshing about when I removed
one or both instruments) and just stored them there, sealed with a
twisty. The house was air conditioned, so the temperature inside was no
problem, but the humidity was probably even lower than outside. It took
about a week for the rings to tighten up again. I know there are
humidifiers one puts in a case, but I've never had much luck with
them. I'm very happy with this other method.

Oliver

At 05:43 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote:
>Jim Fay wrote:
>
> > What's a good way to secure loose barrel
> > rings?
>
>When it happened to me, one repair shop advised using a glue, and
>another shop advised wrapping a thin paper around the socket (enough
>paper to make the ring tight) and then pushing the ring on over the
>paper.
>
>I chose the paper approach because wood is never 100% stable, and I
>didn't want the wood to tear itself apart if it needed to "let go" of
>the metal ring.
>
>The paper repair turned out to be permanent. I've never needed to do it
>again.
>
>
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