Klarinet Archive - Posting 000430.txt from 2006/03

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Rossi quality flaw
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:58:09 -0500

Boom Boom!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Lloyd" <matthew@-----.uk>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] Rossi quality flaw

> 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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