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Author: Christina
Date: 2000-08-29 15:05
To my a absolute horror, I have tarnish on my Festival. It is my own fault! I used to transfer it from case to case for my lesson. I used a Pro-Tech case for transport to my lessons, and the original case in a gig bag for storage. Unfortunately, I neglected to transfer the instrument back into the original case after my last lesson. Now, six months later, I have the dreaded tarnish. I searched the archives and found lots of great information for preventing tarnish, but not many suggestions for removing it. I have a sizeable investment in this expensive "toy" and I am wondering what I sould do. I have no problem cleaning up the ligature and cap, but am afraid to do anything to the keys and barrell. Should I just take it to an authorized Buffet dealer? What have others of you done? Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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Author: beejay
Date: 2000-08-29 21:40
How did you clean the cap and how bad is the tarnish? Whatever you do, everyone seems to think that you shouldn't use silver polishes or cleaners. My method, which I've mentioned in a previous posting, is to dip the corner of a Hagerty jewellery cloth into distilled water until the water turns a light pink. I then use a cotton bud to clean off light tarnish, dipping it first into the solution and then into clean distilled water, and finish off with a lint-free cloth. I don't think this would work for heavy tarnish, however.
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Author: Sara
Date: 2000-08-30 02:55
For heavy tarnish, I do use a tarnish remover but that never happens anymore, because i practice on regular basis now. But you need to keep your Festival in the original case, because its made to fit your calrinet and accomadate the extra key, I carry my Festival with me in a music bag, witht the clarinet in the original case. This prevents from keys changing and provides optimal protection, even though it is kinda bigger than a protec case! ( I have one for my marching clarinet!)This will also prevent tha extra tarnish, the protec cases allow much more oxygen in than the buffet cases do. Hope i could help!
Sara
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Author: Willie
Date: 2000-08-30 03:31
Be careful not to get any chemical tarnish remover on the springs. I've found most will cause the steel springs to rust up badly then snap off. If you do, clean them off and use a Q-tip or something to coat them lightly with some oil.
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Author: ERNIE KING
Date: 2000-08-31 13:39
Once a year i dismantle all the keys on me Buffet and
with a Q tip end, barely dipped in Twinkle silver polish
i remove all stains and gently wipe with a kleenex.keys
posts and all. My clarinet looks like new every time
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