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Re: Best material to silence linkage?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2020-02-08 22:03

Hmmmmm............ not sure what that would even be these days.

Back in the '70s when there were no teflon coated or pure teflon pins located at the ends of LH levers, I would use a couple of layers of "fish skin" (same bladder material used to cover standard clarinet pads) cropped into little squares, poke a small hole in the center of the bundle and slip that over the metal pin at the end of those levers.

In the past 30 years or so I haven't given that much thought. If you have older clarinets with the plain metal ends terminating the paddle keys, a tech can put in teflon pins for under $100.00 (and you want to be sure you specify teflon and not that nylon crap).

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

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