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Author: goody_benman
Date: 2008-04-16 02:52
This may seem like a weird question, but....
Let's say that someone (not me) wrote on a tenon cork with a Sharpie. What's the worst that could happen?
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-04-16 02:55
> What's the worst that could happen?
They'll have to wipe the cork grease off the Sharpie ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: BobD
Date: 2008-04-16 09:52
Misspelling
Bob Draznik
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-04-16 10:57
If you're going to write an offensive word (or a message) on a tenon cork, write it on the underside then glue it on so no-one will ever know, except for whoever replaces the tenon cork at a later time, and they'll either find it funny or offensive, depending what they're like.
Same can be done with key corks - the larger, the better. Though 4-letter words don't take up too much room, so speaker key, throat G#, C#/G# and Ab/Eb key corks are ideal. Just make sure the ink doesn't permeate through the cork or silencing material to the outside.
On clarinets I usually write on the undersides of the tenon corks before glueing them on, so I know which strip of cork is for which tenon - usually marked 'TOP', 'MID' or 'BELL' so they don't get mixed up if I'm doing the lot at the same time.
But so far I've never written any expletives on tenon corks (honest!), only goody-benman gave me that idea.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-04-16 13:03
Clarinet people aren't the only ones who sometimes leave their marks. I wrote an article for "The Strad" magazine a number of years ago (June, 1978, "Secret Life Below the Bridge," a stupid title, alas) about debris, grossly bad repairs and written words repairmen find inside violins. My sources (obtained through my husband, Kevin, an advanced amateur violinist) were violin players and several violin repairmen. The debris included a five-and-a-half pound wasp nest that Atlanta fiddle collector George Misbach found in a violin that had been hanging in a Georgia barn for years.
Writing is pretty common inside violins. Typically, repairmen write on the violin belly, just below the instrument's bridge, where the writing will never be seen unless a repairman removes the belly (top piece of wood, where the strings go). Bill Weaver, an exceptional violin repairman in Washington, D. C. then (now relocated just across the Maryland border), opened up a German Baroque violin with a sloppily-patched belly crack and discovered that an earlier repairman had scribbled next to this lousy repair, "Bela Lugosi, 1804." Bill opened another fiddle, so bad he'd tried to persuade the owner to buy something else instead of getting that hunk-o-junk fixed, and found, on the inside belly below the bridge, the words, "Congratulations, you have just opened up the worst German violin ever made. A. Stradivarius."
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2008-04-16 13:08
Depending on the shade, it could affect the tone colour.
And if they were words of love, you could finish up betrothed!
Or it could cause a tornado in Trinidad....
Ever heard of the "butterfly effect"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2008-04-16 16:29
A sharpie will raise the tone but any tongued note will not be staccato. The Bic will raise and lower the tone alternately, will not allow staccato, but will produce a languid and cohesive tone.
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Author: John O'Janpa
Date: 2008-04-16 16:48
If it is a green sharpie, it will keep you from skipping while playing.
I haven't been able to skip for years anyway.
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2008-04-17 00:21
I've got a good one... write this on the underside of the cork before gluing it on- "If you can read this, REPLACE ME!"
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Author: CPW
Date: 2008-04-17 01:35
I use a metallic colored gold sharpie.
It is the kind that is stored tip down.
Produces a nice warm tone.
The silver is waaayy too harsh.
Against the windmills of my mind
The jousting pole splinters
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