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Re: Tenon cork replacement

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-06-24 17:54

>>Leila, how thick does the register key bumper cork need to be? Tenon cork is usually around 1.6-2mm thick which is still too thick for most keys.>>

Chris, thanks for catching my goof -- in starting out to improve a bad sentence, I forgot what I was doing after I'd deleted most of it. On most clarinets, I do use flat tenon cork for the register key and often I have to sand that cork down. On some old clarinets, though, especially metal clarinets from the 1930s, the register key will open up like a python's mouth if it isn't stopped short with a thick cork.

On modern clarinets, the main key where I use thick bottle cork is the left-hand throat A that crosses over the A-flat, on the opposite side of the clarinet from the register key. Often that A-flat also needs thick cork. The other one that usually needs extra-thick cork is the throat E-flat/D-sharp (lowest trill key, on the side for the right knuckle).

Lelia
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