Klarinet Archive - Posting 000180.txt from 1997/10

From: Daniel.Meirsman@-----.com
Subj: Re[2]: Safest grips during assembly?
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:20:31 -0400

Hi,

Gary is essentoally right. However, there is a way in which you put minimal
strain on the parts of your clarinet.

When assembling different parts of your instrument use a turning motion
while sliding the tendons together (it sort of a screwing motion). This
should be accomplished without to much force (see Gary's remarks).

Order of assembly:

1. Take the upper joint in your left hand and put your fingers as if you
were going to play on the rings. Take the barrel in your right hand and
assemble using the screw-motion. Put down this assembly.

2. Take the lower joint in your right hand and put your fingers on the
holes as if you were going to play. Now put on the bell, in your left hand,
always using thus 'screw'-motion. Put down this assembly.

3. Take the upper joint assembly in your left hand, again with the fingers
covering the tone holes as if your were going to play. The connecting lever
must be lifted.

4. Take the lower joint assembly in your right hand and make sure your
right hand holds is at the level of the key stack operated by the right
hand little finger. Do not put pressure on the axle operating the F/C or
E/B keys! Again use this turning and sliding motion.

This should do the trick.

Hope this helps,

Daniel

Daniel.Meirsman@-----.com

Subject: RE: Safest grips during assembly?
Author: majordom@-----.us at #SMTP
Date: 22/9/97 19:04

Michael,

This is a good question. My answer is that it should not require "some
force" to put the joints together. Be sure the cork on the joint of the
two sections is well greased. (And of course be sure the connecting
lever on the upper joint, but not the lower, is raised.) If the
sections still require forcing when the cork is greased, the cork is
too thick, or the sections are ill-matched.

Gary Young
Madison, Wisconsin

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From: Michael Connolly[SMTP:michael@-----.COM]
Subject: Safest grips during assembly?

While we're on this thread of instrument abuse -

I am a fairly level-headed teen who is somewhat wary about assembling
his clarinet. What I'd like to know is the safest way to hold the upper
and lower sections when attatching them to the barrel and bell and each
other. It requires some force to put the two joints together, and I
don't want to put any strain on the keywork.

So...opinions, or am I missing something very obvious here?

Thanks.

Michael Connolly
michael@-----.com