Years ago when I first started to play the clarinet I used a selmer liquid cork grease anyone know a shop I can get some more or another form of liquid cork grease. Just asked in a localish music shop and he said he could order it but it would mean having about 20 bottles and as 1 has lasted me over 10 years I think one may be enough. Any help gratefully recieved

Kath,

There is no such thing as liquid grease. It's a bit like asking for liquid butter.

It was probably a thick oil.

As far as 'Selmer' goes, it could be whale oil from the pacific or goose fat from Bulgaria.

Use a bit of olive oil to keep the cork supple, but from then on, any standard cork grease will do.

Steve

i use vaseline with aloe vera for my cork grease works a treat!

Selmer make a cork oil, but they put it on my clarinet after it was serviced and I hated it. It was fine while I was playing the clarinet, took it home in the car and by the time i had got home I had cork grease all over my clarinet as it had gone really runny and just gone everywhere. I would just stick with hard "lipstick style" cork grease. You can use vaseline, but I wouldn't really recommend it as I know people who have used it and then had huge problems with the corks.

me too!

Very sound advice. The lipstick style grease is all you really need. Yes, corks and Vaseline are not a combination I would recommend!