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Re: Help! Pepperell or Salem Mass

Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2006-12-23 01:46

From your description, it sounds like the hanging cork is not a tone hole pad ( not the piece covering the tone hole normally glued into the pad cup) and not the tenon cork (piece that gets inserted into the upper portion of the bell. So, it is proabably the mechanism cork, a small rectangular very flat thin piece of cork.

While there is an adjustmet between the low b-flat and b above it to be concerned about, a quick temp repair is doable by you. It won't effect other notes like most adjustment corks do.

Get some plumber's teflon thread tape ( $.75 a roll) at Home Depot or similar. Wind a few turns around the protruding piece off the bell and it will at least protect the metal connection and quiet the mechanism.

Too much tape and the low b won't play..., too little and the b-flat won't play.

Get close and then rotate the bell either direction a few degrees until both notes play. If no low b-flats are required at present, you could skip all this, rotate the bell to clear and disconnect the bridging pieces and...

See repair man when able.

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