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Re: Selmer Recital-the same as 40 years ago?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2023-07-30 19:42

With metal sleeved tenons on clarinets and oboes, you'll definitely need much thicker than normal tenon corks so they don't get too loose too soon.

If you normally use 1.6mm thick sheet cork for typical tenon corks, then you'd need to use 2mm thick sheet cork for corking tenons fitting into metal sleeved sockets.

And also use good quality cork grease (and not that cheap, crappy lipstick-style stuff supplied with most instruments), only apply a very small amount and spread it evenly over the tenon cork to make it waterproof, keep it supple and make it an easy fit.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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