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Re: Tell Me Everything You Know About 'Silver King' Clarinets ...

Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-12-10 21:31

I've since had to rebuild the barrel as the inner tube had a dry solder joint. Then I found the outer tube wasn't straight either so that took some doing to true it all up so both inner and outer tubes are concentric and also the inner one is flush with the bottom of the socket.

The good thing being the inside diameter of the inner tube is the same as the outer diameter of your regular household copper pipe as well as one of my dent bars so I could mount them in my lathe chuck and slowly turn it whilst soldering to be sure everything ended up straight.

The bell looks like it had the H.N. White info removed as there's some distortion and pitting around where that would've been as well as some very feint signs of the company info. Maybe it was dented and the repair damaged the engraving and it was all removed before being replated. Maybe that was done at the factory - who knows?

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

Post Edited (2020-12-14 19:22)

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