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Re: Cork Grease

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-12-14 02:45

Adding extra stress to the keywork is something you should avoid at all costs, so suitably greased (not overdone or not done at all) tenon corks will allow the joints to be fitted together with little risk of bending anything.

Also how you hold the joints is critical as holding them incorrectly will usually end up putting the E/B and F/C keys out of regulation which is a very common problem. So hold the lower joint in your RIGHT hand with your palm facing downwards and placing your thumb over both the E/B and F/C pad cups holding them closed while your fingers wrap around the back of the joint. Holding the pad cups closed will prevent them being bent during assembly.

Hold the top joint in your LEFT hand with the palm facing upwards and your fingers will wrap around and hold the ring keys closed which not only prevent s the ring keys being bent up, it also raised the linkage between the joints so the silencing material on the underside of the linkage doesn't get ripped off during assembly.

Q. But I'm left handed!
A. Doesn't matter - your left hand is the one that controls the upper joint and your right hand controls the lower joint, so you're simply holding the relative joint in the hand that controls that joint during playing. When is there an instance in playing when your left hand has to hold the lower joint (unless you have a very rare left handed clarinet)?

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

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