Klarinet Archive - Posting 000277.txt from 2006/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] cork grease (was: [kl] Partitta for Mozart's B-day!)
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:21:31 -0500

At 09:32 PM 1/29/2006 -0500, Lelia Loban wrote:
>I'm an amateur, but I re-pad and re-cork my own equipment. Most of my
>clarinets and saxophones are old (early to mid 20th century). I've had to
>replace corks with dried out old glue that became brittle and started
>flaking apart. The cork needed replacing by then, anyway. Most of the
>cork damage I've seen looked as if it came from deterioration of the cork
>itself. I've never thought the cork grease had anything to do with the
>deterioration. I've never seen an intact cork simply come unglued.

I have seen it numerous times. The corks were completely saturated with
grease, but otherwise intact.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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