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Re: Wooden clarinet help

Author: BartHx
Date: 2014-08-26 04:11

What I described is not "extreme oiling". All it is doing is replacing oil that was in the wood when the instrument was new (at least on the inside of the bore). Any less oil will leave the wood in a condition that it is able to absorb water from the bore. As you can read above, water in the wood can lead to problems. Once you get it properly oiled, it is relatively easy to keep it that way with a routine light oiling. The reason it may sound like "extreme oiling" is based on the assumption that, being an older instrument, there is a reasonable probability that the instrument has not been kept properly oiled. Oiling a clarinet on a complete overhaul involves submerging the wooden parts in oil under pressure. That will put considerably more oil into the wood than I have suggested.

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