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 Re: When to use cork grease
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2023-10-02 20:56
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Here's how I recommend people hold the joints during assembly and disassembly. Attached are photos to show exactly what I mean.

ONLY hold the joints in the hands that control them, top joint in your left hand and lower joint in your right hand. Don't swap hands when you do this - there's no reason to if you hold them correctly.

Hold the top joint in your LEFT HAND with your palm facing upwards and wrap your fingers around to hold the ring keys down as well as holding the throat A key open - this is vitally important if you play alto or bass clarinets and there's more than one linkage between the joints.

Hold the lower joint in your RIGHT HAND wit your palm facing downwards, placing your thumb over both the F/C and E/B pad cups to hold them CLOSED, wrapping your fingers around the back of the lower joint to grip it. That way, no keywork will get bent during assembly/disassembly.

Then you can fit the joints together with both a pushing and slight twisting back and forth motion and then align the linkage between the joints. While I strongly advice to use a slight twisting motion for the main joints, you can push the bell and barrel straight on if you find that easier provided you use sufficient cork grease.

As there's the linkage between the joints, it's not advisable to push the joints together without any slight twisting as you'll tear off the key corks or at worst, bend the keywork. As bells and barrels don't normally have keywork or linkages running across the joints (except in some models like Selmer Marchi systems and clarinets with a low E/F correction key on the bell), those joints can be pushed straight down. You'll still need to twist and pull when removing the mouthpiece, barrel and bell.

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