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Author: paulwl
Date: 2003-12-06 14:50
You can use a jeweler's rouge cloth. It needs no liquid or cake polish and won't gum up your keys or pads. It does produce lint and fuzz, though, so make sure you don't leave fuzz in a key joint.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2003-12-07 22:13
If you use jeweller's rouge, the silver plating will eventually wear off. A rub with a piece of chamois leather will remove light tarnish.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-12-08 04:51
ANYTHING that removes the tarnish by rubbing is abrasive, including leather. The tarnish is worn off. The wear is a result of abrasion. The rouge perhaps just allows the wearing process to be completed in a shorter time.
Or did I get this wrong somewhere?
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2003-12-08 07:18
Sounds good to me, Gordon.
Keeping the anti-tarnish strips in the instrument case can do some good. Cheap and easy, too.
Anything with jeweler's rouge, even the rouge-bearing cloths, can spread small amounts of the rouge (abrasive) on the mechanism of your clarinet. I have never heard of one damaged by rouge getting into an axle, but it's probably not a good idea, anyway. If you really want to use that stuff, taking the key off firast would likely be a good move.
Regards,
John
Who uses "Wrights Silver Cream" with keys of
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Author: beejay
Date: 2003-12-08 08:32
Gordon,
You are right. I merely propose that a light buffing with soft chamois is a lot less damaging than using a deliberately abrasive product such as jeweller's rouge.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2003-12-08 08:35
I have come across a surprising number of rusty pivots associated with the characteristic pink (mildly abrasive) powder left by some silver polishes (although it could be pink talcum powder that didn't reach the pads during a liberal dusting!). The powder is all over the mechanism. I suspect that the powder soaks the pivot oil out from where it should be, leaving the pivot dry and rust-prone.
This is why I would definitely suggest keeping opaque liquid polishes or powder polishes away from the mechanism.
The impregnated silver polishing cloths at least don't dump COPIOUS quantities of powder near the pivots, especially if the cloth has been well used, or has had some to ht initial powder shaken out.
I would also be concerned about what clear or translucent liquid 'polishes' do to steel pivots.
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