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Re: Recork glue

Author: Chris P
Date: 2018-01-12 03:00

It's not a good material in that it compresses and doesn't recover so adjustments often go out and adhesives don't stick well to it - you can usually peel off the foam and the adhesive will still be in the key, but the underside of the foam will be clean.

Buffet used it everywhere in the '90s - all keys, all tenon corks, everywhere. It son proved to be useless for tenon corks as they either peeled off or became loose very quickly as it compressed and on keys it caused the thumb ring to stick to the LH1 ring key overlever and the LH F/C key to stick to the Rh F/C key overlever as well as the long Bb link sticking or going out of adjustment. They changed those linkages for rubco as that was more durable (the underlevers didn't wear through it to the adhesive) and went back to using natural cork on the tenons.

The more recent version are white pre-cut shapes which are used across the entire range from the B12/Prodige right up to the Tosca, Divine and Legende - fine for entry level clarinets, but the top models costing several thousand ought to use silencing materials reflecting their near pro level oboe pricetags.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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