Klarinet Archive - Posting 000159.txt from 1997/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Selmer repair
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:10:27 -0400

At 10:30 AM 9/3/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I am looking for a specialized person to overhaul a Selmer Paris Clarinet
>bought in the late 40's. Not a band instrument repair person-a clarinet
>specialist! A band repair "craftsman" ruined by clarinet some time ago and I
>cannot find a decent repair person.
>
I'm going to get in trouble again for asking this, but I don't understand
how a repair person can "ruin" and instrument. Assuming he did not do
anything ridiculous like alter the bore, what could he do that could not be
repaired or readjusted relatively easily by someone else? Not to say that
there are not incompetent people out there, just that I don't think they
can do that much damage without messing with things they have no business
messing with. And I doubt that they would go that far out of their way if
they didn't know what they were doing.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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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.