Klarinet Archive - Posting 000573.txt from 1996/04

From: Steve Prescott <MIPRESC@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Annual clarinet,cleaning et. al.
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 13:27:42 -0400

Jacqueline,

If you have to start loading the tone holes (we're talking clarinet only
here) with epoxy or some sort of tape, there are some serious
manufacturing defects with the instrument.

Minor tuning adjustments to a professional clarinet are almost always
necessary. A technician trys to tailor the instrument to the player.

I tune by undercutting tone holes and by painting the inside of the tone
hole with nail lacquer. This is also the way it is done at the factory.

Steve.
Steve Prescott
Instrument Rep.Tech./Clarinetist
Indiana State University
mipresc@-----.edu

   
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