Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2006/02

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] cork grease
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:53:47 -0500

I have well over a dozen clarinets---all with corks at least 30 years old. I recently did change a tenon cork on my Selmer 9* that I won in a raffle in 1965 and used for 11 years in University and played in several local orchestras, before I started using my Buffets for most classical playing. All my corks fit perfectly. The cork grease I use is what Buffet was providing in the mid-70's---DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IT IS MADE OF??? LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT HAVE SOME LANOLIN IN IT.

I apply cork grease ---AS NEEDED---ie, maybe once a year.

We have rented out hundreds of clarinets in our stores and the primary cause of bad corks appears to be rotting from too much cork grease. The students and customers that head our "Only grease a little for the first month and after that once per year." get very long lived corks.

Kurt Heisig
Kurt Heisig Music stores
Clarinet repairman
(CAll about the new Heisig Saxes---(831) 425-5658)

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

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