Ooh! i have a foot joint question too! ^_^. My cousin has a problem with her footjoint always falling off during marching band. She says it randomly falls off. WeiRD!
Is this a major problem? Should she go to a repair person? [:

My Yamaha used to do that. A quick trip to a good repair tech should take care of it, and at very little cost. I would suggest she do something, as sooner or later it's going to get trampled in the course of marching, or fall off when she's not paying attention, and it'll get lost. Not to mention that if it's that loose, it may be leaking air at the joint.

flutist06 --

Yes, I haven't had this problem with my newest flute, so I haven't needed to even bother doing anything or getting it fixed at all... which is nice.

But I'll stop the practice on my other flutes. Thanks!

Thanks, JoeB, for your kind and clarifying answer.

okay! thanks! she hasn't been to a repair person for years. i guess her flute needs a checkup

Curious guy strikes again...

I cannot resist, however.

What is this "clarinet cork grease" stuff? do clarinets have a cork somewhere and it needs to be greased? How weird...

They do indeed. All the joints on a clarinet use cork to ensure an airtight seal, as do most wooden piccs and some plastic ones, and saxophone necks. The grease acts as a lubricant, so as not to damage the cork (or the other parts of the instrument through excessive force) when the instrument is assembled/disassembled. It's roughly the same consistency as petroleum jelly (usually a little thicker), and comes in different forms from chapstick-like tubes to little canisters.

I understand. I was confused By the "cork" in the flute, so much different.

Thank you for the explanation.

No problemo!

"No hay problema"

Yeah, that's the one! Any skill I had with Spanish pretty much disappeared after my sophomore year (the last year I took foreign language). Sorry about that!

Flutist06 and JoseLuis, appart from the off topic, "no problemo" is quite frequently heard, and seems to me as being used as popular talking, isn't it?

Zevang

Zevang, "no problemo" could come from a different language other than Spanish, but I do not know and neither have it seen it before.

Also the expression "No hay problema" is in fact used in Venezuela, it is not so common in Spain as far as I know. I lived for 14 years there and still remember a few of their expressions.

"No problemo" is part of slang over here....It's "Spanglish" (a cross between english and Spanish), and doesn't have any real meaning in either language (that I'm aware of), but is commonly accepted to mean the same as "no problem," just in a slightly less formal sense.

Thanks. We learn about everything here!