Klarinet Archive - Posting 000650.txt from 1997/03

From: Nathaniel F Johnson <clarinat@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Pinned clarinets
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:30:10 -0500

I had a problem tone hole that cracked twice, and the repair person
replaced it. That's right, she replaced the tone hole. When I heard
about this, I thought, "How can you replace a hole? There's nothing
there to begin with." But I guess they widen the hole substantially and
then put in an insert (not cracked) that brings the hole back down to its
original size. This keeps air from escaping.

Nathaniel Johnson
Conductor / Clarinettist
All-Around Good Guy
University of Northern Colorado
clarinat@-----.com

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:28:55 -0500 Karl Krelove <kkrelove@-----.COM>
writes:
>In general, my experience has been that once closed and pinned
>correctly,
>cracks cause no more trouble (there's no guarantee it can't crack
>somewhere
>else, though if it was a poor piece of wood). You say the work appears
>to
>have been done in the speaker key area. The only red flag that would
>raise
>for me, not knowing exactly where the crack is, would be whether the
>register opening (or any other tone hole) was affected. The one
>instrument
>I ever owned that cracked never played as well afterward because the
>crack
>went through a tone hole, where there was no way, it seemed, to keep
>the
>crack from opening every once in a while (even a tiny amount of
>opening in
>the pad seat will allow an air leak). I know the speaker hole has a
>metal
>liner, but I would hesitate to trust any instrument with a cracked
>tone hole.
>