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Re: tight clarinet joints

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2008-05-29 13:03

Most new Selmers need this problem dealt with. Better than buying a clarinet with LOOSE joints..

"I'm just going to leave it as is for now and use plenty of cork grease every time I put it together and see if it breaks in."

Once the timber jams, it does not "break in" unless you move to a drier climate.

Cork grease helps a lot with cork, but not a lot with timber. Be careful. It may reach a point where you cannot take it apart. And it is always possible that while you are forcing it you could bend keys, or even break off the tenon joint.

BTW, for an inexperienced person to use sand paper, they are likely to sand away far too much timber at the edge at the very end of the tenon's '
shoulder', before they have sanded enough adjacent to the cork. Every technician must have seen these conical-shaped 'shoulders'. Not good.... They are well on the way to need rather expensive capping with metal.

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