Klarinet Archive - Posting 000396.txt from 1995/12

From: mdmoors@-----.L
Subj: Re: Damp-it/Humidity/Wood/Oranges (fwd)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 19:06:33 -0500

Forwarded message:
>
> Humidity... control or not to control... To oil or not to oil? Dampits?
> Orange peels? Almond oil with Vitamin E added? Sponges kept slightly
> (Slightly?) damp in the bell? Humistats?
> Eye of Newt, ear of eel, tounge of bat, banshee squeal... who knows? Volumes
> have been written about the subject, not quite as much as about the second
> coming of our Lord, but close, and what has changed? As Sonny Bono once
> observed, "The beat goes on!" and instruments still crack! As a famous
> presidential candidate, Alfred E. Newman once said, "What, me worry!"......
> Face it, you are going to buy a "Cracker" or NOT... thats it!
> Any one who will tell you that if you purchase a new instrument and follow
> XYZ proceedure that your instrument WILL POSITIVELY NOT CRACK.... please send
> them my way so that I can find if they will put their $$$ where their mouth
> is.
> Not even "Lloyds of London" would touch that one. So.... what does all this
> mean? It means this.... Enjoy practicing, oil your instrument if you want to,
> keep orange, lemon, grapefruit etc. peels in your case, humistats, dampits,
> what ever, but if Mr. Bb, Mr. A, Mr. Oboe or Mr. Big or Little wants to crack
> just try to stop him.
> On another subject..... Clarinet, Oboe, etc. warranties are simply put, 6
> months of Hard Prayers on the part of manufacturers! New replacement
> warranties do not exceed 6 months on any brand... After 6 months the
> warranties are for up to one year of "Repair" which means "Pinning". (If I
> have requests I will get into this treatise on another night.)
> It seems a bad deal that a player will go to great lengths to select an
> instrument for it's personal charateristics, sometimes traveling hundreds of
> miles to do so and spending much valuable time only to have an instrument
> crack within six months. What happens after 6 months when an instrument
> cracks? The warranty says "6 months replacement" Right? Wrong! Replacement at
> the factory of a NEW upper section only!
> Experience tells me that any upper joint in the factory then has the keys
> from the clarinet you selected transfered to it resulting in what is 99% of
> the time a totally different instrument from the one you selected. Factory
> technicians usually do not even change the pads, which do not just transfer
> between parts and seal correctly... This is why I do not reccomend having
> your instrument cork padded during the first 6 months. .. If the instrument
> cracks and gets a new joint you may have to have the instrument completely
> redone at your cost.
>
> Forwarded to me from: Eric Satterlee
> Meridian Winds

   
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