Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 2006/03

From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Rossi quality flaw
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:53:10 -0500

The last thing you need is a tarnished elastic band!

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb [mailto:gsecomb@-----.au]
Sent: 21 March 2006 10:57
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Rossi quality flaw

Tony Pay wrote:
> Meanwhile, it's worth knowing that a rubber band can almost always be
> pressed
> into service as a replacement for a spring. Just having a strand of
> rubber
> stretched over the cup that holds the pad is usually enough, and it's
> worth
> getting some practice in the sort of rubber-band geometry that will
ensure
> this for various keys. Many a concert has been salvaged with a humble

> rubber
> band, and here you have an opportunity to imagine how.

Just remember not to leave the rubber band in contact with your silver
plating for any length of time or it will tarnish badly.
Geoff.

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