Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 1996/07

From: Fred <fsheim@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Rico, Maneri, and stuff
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 10:05:25 -0400

Better bring that horn back to your repairman for adjustment- one of those
new pads wasn't seated correctly and is leaking.

Fred (fsheim@-----.com)

>SNIP!
>
> Finally, what does it mean when, on a newly overhauled clarinet, I
>sometimes find it difficult to get low notes to sound; the
>instrument sometimes acts as if the register key were open, which it
>ain't. It's almost as if the reed had a memory of its own,
>refusing to jump down into the lower register. This didn't happen so
>much, if ever, before the overhaul, which entailed only a few new pads
>and some cork here and there. And, like I said, a No. 2 reed is
>involved -- too soft?
>
>Thanks in advance,
> John/NYC
>
>