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 RE: string for cork tenons
Author: Mark Pinner 
Date:   2002-06-20 10:06

I string quite a lot of tenons for money of course and the love of beeswax. You get a fair sized callous on your thumb especially if you use polyester/dacron type thread. Fox use a proprietry nylon thread and I have seen a couple of old Heckels that had the original wrappings in tact and they seem to be cotton or hemp.

On bassoons wrapping tenons makes the horn feel a bit more live and certainly more flexible. Corked tenons are not as flexible but increase the volume slightly. For somebody using a long bore horn and playing 2nd bassoon where low register is used more often I prefer cork but that is just me.

I think on a blackwood clarinet you are wasting your time but on a rosewood or boxwood horn you may get some effect. A physicist would probably tell you this is all crap though.
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