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Re: Best way to clean and polish silver clarinet keys

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-05-08 16:02

I strongly prefer unpolished keys. When you shine silver, it gets slippery, and this gives me trouble particularly on the keys for the little fingers.

For the same reason, I hate nickel-plated keys, and I'm also slightly allergic to nickel.

If you have an older Buffet with German silver keys, there's no plating at all, and any polished surface dulls quickly.

Finally, the newer silver-plated Buffets have a very thin plating over copper. There have been many complaints about the silver flaking off, and the last thing you want to do is make it even thinner.

Ken Shaw

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