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Re: Key oil for Clarinet

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-02-13 22:32

Elkwoman,

I think you'll find this surprising, but I have a whole quart of 90-weight gear oil in my shop that I bought just to oil my (handful of) clarinets. I put about a 6-year supply into a pill bottle, and I apply it small drops at a time to my clarinet using a toothpick.

A clarinet's mechanism doesn't require much lubrication, but if its allowed to go "dry in the joints" the mechanism will wear. Then the pads won't seat reliably, it will be noisy, perhaps sticky. My schedule calls for 1/2 a drop of 90-wt oil at each pivot about every 8-months or so.

Its not good to put an exccessive amount of oil on the mechanisms because it will be messy --and its not the same stuff used to "oil" the wood.

Bob Phillips

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