Keys and oiling

[Matt_Celta]

Hi everyone!

I have a doubt. Is it wise to take off the keys from your flute when oiling?

I have pin keyed flute.

Thanks

[Jayhawk]

I just slide a bit of waxed paper beneath the pads and oil with them on (cling wrap will work, too, or a cut up plastic bag - anything to keep the oil from gumming up the pads).

Eric

[Gabriel]

Plastic wrap works also. I've done it that way and it works just fine.

[Doc Jones]

I would never use plastic wrap on a wooden keyed flute. I think it's degrading.

I use aluminum foil.

No, I wouldn't take the keys off. Life's too short for that sort of nonsense.

Doc

[peeplj]

Just one caution re: aluminum (or aluminium) foil:

It is very sharp on the edge.

Be cautious that you do not accidently cut the surface of the pads (or the wood, or your fingers!) when slipping the foil beneath the keys.

I, myself, use small pieces of plastic cut from the plastic bags they give you for your grocery store purchases these days.

When oiling, you should be applying just barely enough oil to make the bore glisten.

If you are actually getting the the pieces of plastic damp with oil, you are using too much oil.

--James

[roj]

I would never use plastic wrap on a wooden keyed flute. I think it's degrading

Doc...you are a stitch.

[cocusflute]

... the plastic bags they give you for your grocery store purchases...

In a civilized country you are charged for plastic grocery bags. Hence the decrease in litter and a concise environmental message. When you go to the grocery store you take shopping bags with you.
Of course a civilized country doesn't bomb another country to get the resources needed to make the bags in the first place.

[awildman]

You do know that there is a political forum for such things, right?

p.s. The plastic bag shortage over here before the bombing was just horrible. I don't know how we survived.

[peeplj]

... the plastic bags they give you for your grocery store purchases...

In a civilized country you are charged for plastic grocery bags. Hence the decrease in litter and a concise environmental message. When you go to the grocery store you take shopping bags with you.
Of course a civilized country doesn't bomb another country to get the resources needed to make the bags in the first place.

Oh, I agree: in a civilized country, you never attack without provocation.

So what's your excuse? I certainly don't feel I did anything to deserve this...I was describing how I oil my flutes, for Pete's sake!!!

--James

[crookedtune]

Pattern? What pattern? Well, that's life on the blog...

[jim stone]

If you must do the political attack thing,
please do it in a venue where people can answer
you without breaking the rules.