Author: Bluesparkle
Date: 2009-01-30 00:55
Just had a friend of mine say that she purchased a wooden clarinet for her daughter. She got it for $300 from a friend who paid $600 for it. I have no idea what kind of instrument it is, but that matters little.
Apparently the daughter is a germaphobe, and proceeded to soak her entire clarinet in bleach. Yes, you heard me correctly.
Needless to say, all the corks and pads disintegrated and had to be replaced. Now, it seems that they make frequent trips to the repair shop because the tenon corks continue to crumble.
I did make sure that the daughter was a dilligent user of cork grease, and that she wasn't forcing the clarinet during assembly and disassembly. She has supposedly gone through two sticks of cork grease, which sounds like a lot to me.
I assume that the repair tech who is replacing the corks has been thorough and made sure that the wood is okay, but it seems to me that if the corks keep falling off, that there's bleach still in the wood pores, perhaps. I have not laid eyes on the instrument, so I don't know if it looks unusual or not.
Any thoughts on what a bleach bath might do to a wooden instrument?
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