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Author: Laura
Date: 2002-12-08 17:56
Everytime I play water/spit leaks out of my C#/Db side key, Eb/D# side key and trill key. I swab out a lot and use cigarette paper, but it still leaks out of those keys. It is SO annoying. Can I change my spit trail somehow so that it won't go into those keys? How can I stop it from happening?
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Author: ken
Date: 2002-12-09 14:00
There are many practical and effective suggestions in previous discussions. I myself, used to apply Ken Shaw's pipe cleaner solution. I know a recorder player that actually uses a dab of dishwasher detergent in lieu of bore oil. In most performance situations unless the brass was blasting away and I was resting, I wouldn't/couldn't start huffing and puffing away at my tone holes, and often, cigarette paper was not thorough enough. On a suggestion by Melvin Warner in 1988, I took my horn(s) to repairmen Leonard Zopf (philadelphia). He devised a method of gently/lightly etching tiny scratches (emphasis on lightly) or gullies around the problem tone holes. He fashioned inverted "Y" patterns the theory being, spit droplets form/drip down and follow the crevices thus avoiding the tone holes all together. The process of course, was permanent. It worked very well for me; I cut my water build-up about 80%. Since then, I've never had any problems with response and/or discernable effect in tone, inner bore splitting or cracking. v/r KEN
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