Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2006/04

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Silencers
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:46:24 -0400

For starters, don't use perfectly good pads, use old ones! I keep all the
old pads which come out of the F/C and E/B keys for this purpose.
I am still using pad skins, and use a wad punch (c. 10mm) to cut them.
Problem is to find anything sufficiently strong and thin to do the job but
not make the pin too tight in the receiver hole, which of course ruins the
action.
Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 10:23 AM
Subject: [kl] Silencers

> No, I'm not gunning for anyone. I just finished cutting up a perfectly
> good
> double-skinned bladder pad to get silencer skins for the left hand E/B and
> F#/C# lever keys - the packing that has to go around the pins at the ends
> of
> the keys (I have a very old Selmer 10G Bb - way before they started
> coating
> those pins with Teflon or using plastic for the pins on some instruments).
> It's a small nuisance but enough that I wondered if some of you have found
> better materials to use. I used to buy ready-made, cut-to-size skin discs
> for the purpose, but I haven't seen them and wonder if someone is now
> making
> them out of something more space-age, like Teflon or some sort of
> polyester.
>
> What do all of you use?
>
> Karl
>
>
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