Klarinet Archive - Posting 000900.txt from 1997/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Pad question
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:13:39 -0400

At 06:40 AM 8/20/97 -0500, R. Garrett wrote:
>Actually, the word overhaul may not have been the word used. Probably,
>Michelle was told to spend between $200-325 to send the new Buffet to Bill
>Brannen in Evanston, IL and have new instrument service done....equivalant
>to an overhaul.
>
>I used to think that such a service was a crock until I did it....Bill
>does some amazing things.....beynod putting in better pads (the gortex are
>nice but still do not last as long), he levels tone holes, fills grains
>and puts a wax-type substance on the tone holes. He re-engineers some of
>the cork stops with teflon, tightens up the posts and joints, and resets
>springs to factory specs. Frankly, his work opens the entire instrument
>up.

Frankly, I still think some of this is oversold hype. If an instrument of
the level of an R-13 needs these fixes immediately after leaving the
factory, it should have been rejected! (I'll give you the teflon thing, a
$20 fix.) I hate to think these instruments are so shabbily made and
poorly designed that they need this kind of attention before they will play
properly. I can't believe that more than minute differences can be made.
But it's your money, and mine, too (about $.02 worth).

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

   
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