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Author: rak
Date: 2009-11-18 00:51
Hello again
I am wondering what is the proper way to clean and treat the cork and metal parts on an old 1951 pre R 13 Buffet Crampon. If I wanted to do it myself
My old thread was deleted by accident so I also welcome any knowledge about these instruments also
Thanks for any Help
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2009-11-18 05:07
The cork really doesn't need to be treated, with the exception of greasing the tenon corks. As for the metal, the most you can do without taking everything apart is to polish the keys up a bit, and there are varying opinions as to whether that's a particularly good and/or useful thing to do, I think. Taking everything apart is generally a poor idea if it's your primary instrument and you're not experienced because, even assuming you are able to put everything back in the right place, things are likely to be horribly out of adjustment everywhere.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: kathryn777
Date: 2009-11-20 00:20
The repair techs I work with absolutely hate it when people take their own clarinets apart, because 9 times out of 10 they come into the store needing it to be redone for them.
As far as cleaning it... a little bit of cork grease on the joints, and for the metal parts you can try using just your regular silver polish cloth... or even a small bit of key oil on a Qtip/cotton swab. If that fails to get them as shiny as you like, then haggerty's silver polish works well... be careful when using this, however, because you do not want to "gunk up" your clarinet.
Or you can always just take it into an experienced technician
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-11-20 10:56
I clean cork with kerosene first and then lemon oil, leave to dry for some hours then rub with paraffin and finally cork grease. I use lemon oil alone on the wood and metal also then wipe off the metal and apply Renaissance wax to the touch points. After all that the horn is essentially cleaned (but not oiled) and I use Doc Henderson's products for routine maintenance purposes.
Bob Draznik
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