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Re: Best clarinet repair kit/essential tools list

Author: SunnyDaze
Date: 2019-02-20 21:08

I've done a little bit of repair as a novice, stripping clarinets down and cleaning them and putting them back together. Along with the things that Paul suggests, here are some things that I found, though as I say, I am just a novice so they might not be right:

- A digital camera - so you can photograph the keys and their position on the instrument as they are coming off. You can look at the photos in reverse when you want to put all of the pieces back on and it really helps.

- A tray to put all of the bits on, and small pots for the screws.

- metal polish for the keys, and a cloth. This could be silver polish for silver keys or I used chrome car polish for nickel silver keys. I'm not sure if that was right.

- A Dremel multi drill-type thing with a polishing end on it. I found this incredibly useful for polishing up nickel silver keys that had decades of stuff to be cleaned off. I'm not sure if we are meant to use such a thing, but it worked an absolute treat.

- Maybe a very narrow pipe cleaner to clean the old dirty oil out of the long tubes on the keys. I didn't have one, but I think it would have been helpful.

- I tried to fit new pads and it really didn't work very well. I think that is the point where it's good to have an expert to teach how to do it. I didn't get very far with fitting new cork either.

- This book is very good: "Dr Downing's Clarinettist's First Aid Doctor", and this one: "Clarinet Manual: How to Buy, Set up and Maintain a Boehm System Clarinet".

Good luck!

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