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Re: Best way to clean and polish silver clarinet keys

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-02-08 17:12

When servicing and overhauling clarinets (and oboes and silver plated saxes) I remove all the needle springs so I can hand rag all the pillars using a strip torn from a silver polishing cloth without any risk of catching any springs or getting stabbed by them.

A bench peg (a tapered wooden or plastic peg set into the front of the bench) supports one end of the joint while being held in place with the other end of the joint against your sternum so both hands are free to use the polishing cloth or strop body joints to shine them up.

The strips of polishing cloth also come in handy to polish right into the corners of keys by tying the strip to a hook screwed into the front of my workbench and strop the keys as a barber strops a cut-throat razor. All other accessible areas can be polished with a polishing cloth as normal.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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