Author: donald
Date: 2018-01-12 04:12
Well, if the price was right, I could play a clarinet with those scratches/tarnishes etc but the bore is a problem (was it like that when you got it?)
I does NOT however look to me like "acid saliva" caused the bore problem. Either it wasn't finished properly at manufacture, or oiling the bore caused the wood to "rise" (I don't know the official term for this- Bassoon players talk about it though... the oiling causes micro "burrs" to lift up from the polished surface of the wood).
The other thing that photo (of the bore) reminds me of is an old Buffet clarinet I owned in the 1980s that had been OVER-oiled, and then played (by a smoker) without the excess oil being removed. This- over 4 or 5 years- had resulted in a film of hardned gunk about the thickness of one or two pieces of paper, primarily in the upper half of the top joint. Once this was removed the instrument played very nicely.
I don't know if this is the case here, but if any player had enough acid in their saliva to mess up the surface of the bore like that, they'd have lots of other medical problems
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