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Author: john gibson
Date: 2002-03-11 22:26
buy cork grease on ebay? Granted the bidding starts at around a dollar...but add the postage...(not to mention the wait) and you've spent more than if you go to the music store and grab a stick for a buck and a half......just wondering.....
While I'm at it....has anyone used Zonda reeds? What do you think?
Thanks....
John
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-03-11 23:25
I haven't used them before, but I've heard some pretty good feedback on the MB. As for the cork grease thing... wasn't as bad as the box of used reeds I saw on it six months ago. No, I am NOT joking!!
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-11 23:35
Hey there David!! How's it going with you and your high school studies? What exciting clarinet pieces are you working on?
take care - diz
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Author: Crissy
Date: 2002-03-12 00:23
I love Zonda reeds! I've found them to be more consistent for me than the other brands.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-03-12 04:16
Zonda has two kinds of clarinet reeds.
Ordinary ones and 'Classic'.
Although Alexander names thicker heel(3.2mm) one 'Alexander Classic',Zonda calles thinner heel(2.8mm) one 'Classic'.
Both of them sound good but seem to absorve moisture/saliva very rapidly.
BTW. If you buy a bottle of Vaseline at a drug store, you can use it as a cork grease very much cheaper. (FYI(off-topic):you can use soap as toothpaste. Actually it is better. Ask any dentist.)
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Author: Karel
Date: 2002-03-12 07:45
I believe anhydrous lanolin or "woolfat" is an inexpensive organic substitute.
Karel
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-03-12 15:29
The Doctor (Omar Henderson) recommends otherwise. He points out that Vaseline is a petroleum-based product, while lanolin is animal-based. Cork, on the other hand, is wood, and it is best served by lubricating with a vegetable-based wax. How much benefit this may confer is surely a matter of conjecture. Corks would last twenty years instead of fifteen, maybe? Who knows. And so many things will "work." Many have used Chap-Stick as cork grease, yet their instruments haven't fallen apart during a performance (as far as I know).
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Author: Forest Aten
Date: 2002-03-12 18:05
Hiroshi,
I did ask several dentists...including my lovely wife, Susan. They ALL told me the same thing.....soap is no good because it doesn't contain flouride. :-)
Forest Aten
Zonda's are very good.......
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-03-13 02:07
Diz:
My high school studies are doing wonderful, of course about as hectic as any other high school student. I'm working on a few things for bass clarinet right now, mostly band arrangements: "Celebration Fanfare", "Second Dawning", things like that. (When do people handwrite 32nd notes in for Bb Contrabass? It's weird.)
Maybe the soap works off another chemical. I know one needs fluoride in their system, but I am rather curious on how soap would work as toothpaste. Wouldn't that taste awful.
How would it work as a grease? Lol.
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Author: John O'Janpa
Date: 2002-03-13 02:10
Zondas work better for me than any of the dozen or so other brands I've tried.
John O'Janpa
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-03-13 03:30
I use soap in my kid's mouths occasionaly to correct their choice of words. I don't know how it affected the teeth, but I wish I had some pictures of their faces to show their future kids. They're lucky I don't have my grandma's old home made lye soap.
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-03-13 16:48
Willie,
Do you remember the rest of the verses re: "grandma's old home made lye soap." Very gifted man, Spike Jones.
Bob A
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Author: LynnB
Date: 2002-03-13 19:50
I LOVE Spike Jones. He did a great version of an Opera (was it Pagliaci??)
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-03-13 22:15
Hey, what's wrong with buying anything on eBay it's the true free market system.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-03-15 19:06
David...Not such a huge digression.
City "Slickers" - cork "grease"
so what's the problem? :-) ...GBK
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-03-15 21:49
Dave, You know I am just a ignorant butterfly flitting from one subject to another.
Thanks GBK for your encyclopedic knowledge.
Bob A
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