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Re: Lose rings

Author: m1964
Date: 2019-02-07 09:24

CLARNIBASS WROTE:

"I'm not crazy about "non-conforming" fillers/shims (like paper, etc.) because what usually happens is the ring supports and touches only at two opposite small areas as opposed to around the socket, in addition to less control over thickness.

I prefer shellac. It automatically fills the exact amount around the entire circumference to give support all around".

Thanks a lot to everyone who replied to my post.
I looked again today and found a tiny amount of brown glue on the top "step" of the barrel where the bottom of the top ring would be. Someone used the glue (possibly brown shellac?) to keep the ring in place before I bought the clarinet. Since this top barrel ring was very lose I fixed the problem using thin fabric as shimming material.
I am going to fix the house humidifier tomorrow and then wait a couple of weeks in hope that other rings will not need shimming.

Thanks again

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m1964

2019-02-06 09:10