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Re: Unknown Albert system clarinet

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-05-31 01:53

They're more likely to be the tips of screws if they're made from steel (which turns brown/black) as they'd have used non-ferrous metals (brass or nickel silver) to rivet spring in due to them being much softer than steel and easier to flatten out. Older Boosey&Co. clarinets have steel flat spring screws that go all the way through the touchpieces and are then filed down, papered up and polished smooth along with the top side of the touchpiece. Touchpieces with rivets through them will have the holes through the touchpieces countersunk for the rivets to flare out into to prevent them being pulled through once they're filed smooth.

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

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