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Salty air and key plating

Author: Johan H Nilsson
Date: 2018-06-19 01:32

I spent the weekend in a small house near the sea and found that the friction on the keys on the two clarinets I brought with me increased. It was not so easy to glide on the throat keys as usual in fast passages.

I haven't experienced this before, so I blame the salty air.

Found some support:
"The most common elements which tarnish silver are foods (like onions, eggs, mayonnaise, salad dressing, salty foods, and others). Other agents that cause tarnish are salt, smoking, sunshine, wool, felt, rubber bands, latex gloves, carpet padding, sulfur in the air, hairspray, perfume, oily residue from our hands and fingers, and exposure to the ocean’s salty air and/or water. "
https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.doknational.org/resource/resmgr/DOK_Resources/Cross_Care.pdf

"If you live on the coast, nickel will suffer the salty air much better than silver will."
https://fluteland.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=3042

What do the coastal people here on the forum do with their clarinets?

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2018-06-19 01:32