Klarinet Archive - Posting 000818.txt from 1996/02

From: Dave Lane <davelane@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: b/f# changes with joint alignment (?)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:05:31 -0500

Are you sure you haven't bent the bridge mechanism, causing the pad on the
lower ring key to leak? Very common, and you wouldn't find the leak
examining the joints seperately.

Regards

Dave Lane

At 05:17 PM 2/26/96 EST, you wrote:
> My no-frills Buffet R13 is beginning to show signs of use. A few days ago
> I assembled my instrument and began practicing. The chal. b (or clarion
> f# ) wasn't coming through. I investigated pads until my vision blurred.
> I concentrated on covering the tone hole accurately. All to no avail.
> Quite by accident, I rotated the top joint counter-clockwise a bit. The
> note made a full recovery. Now fully in Experiment Mode, I made the same
> degree of shift clockwise. This "worsened" the tone. I find this
> fascinating because I was unable to reproduce this phenomenon on any
> other clarinet. Also, this is the first time in three years of pretty
> casual joint aligning that I've encountered a problem. I'm more than a
> bit hesitant to post this because I'm afraid the "discovery" I've made is
> basic: I changed the physics of the instrument. But, what does puzzle me
> is that it has never happened before. Maybe I need to start putting
> pencil notches on the joints where the alignment "plays" the best!
>
> ***********************
> Bill Fogle
> Washington, DC
> bfogle@-----.edu
> ***********************
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