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Re: Thumb Troubles!

Author: D
Date: 2008-03-29 20:37

Have you tried taking the cushion off, washing it thoroughly with soap and putting it back on upside down? Sounds daft, but if you are somewhere hot, and playing more than normal your sweat could be reacting with the rubber and causing irritation.
My sweat is brilliant, I think I should sell it to safe crackers. My student clarinet barely has any plating left on it and I am doing a pretty good job getting through the silver plate on my good ones. I'm sure if I was somewhere warmer I would eat through the wood from the back too - there is already a large pale patch where the finish is corroding.......any way, it's a subject on my mind, and I wondered if that might part of your problem too. You could try putting the thumb from a clean cotton glove over it when you play if it does turn out to be a rubber irritation.

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