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Re: Lose rings

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2019-02-06 18:25

The issue of the wood "re-expanding" to its original configuration is mostly wishful thinking. It is reasonable to draw the analogy with tenon corks. If we keep a clarinet together for LONG periods after playing, the corks get loose and the horn starts to get wobbly between sections. This is caused by the moisturized/expanded cork becoming compressed and then drying out to a smaller diameter. The cure? You need to replace the tenon cork. Similarly the wood under the rings compresses when the wood is continuously moisturized when being played. When it is allowed to dry out, the wood is then (similar to the cork) at a smaller diameter then what it was originally and will never magically spring back (though it will expand again when moisturized......just not to the same amount of "compression").

I do agree that shims are a bit "ham fisted," but they work, and I've never experienced any sort of cracking due to their use (which would be a legitimate argument against their use).

....................Paul Aviles

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