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RE: pull through cleaning cloth

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 1999-01-25 03:12

jim lande wrote:
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I was chatting with Lelia. She uses a silk cloth for swabbing her clarinets. A long time ago I was told that silk was slightly more abrasive than cotton and therefore would wear a wooden clarinet slightly faster. The commercial cloths are all cotton (and occasionally rip inside one of my clarinets -- must have a sharp post.) Cotton is much cheaper.
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Considering that I know of perfectly playable 100 year old clarinets that have been swabbed by silk all those years - I wouldn't worry too much.

You can buy silk swabs from any mail order place. I use one - it's a no name. I paid (I think) $6.00.

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