Klarinet Archive - Posting 000280.txt from 1997/10

From: "Bill Edinger,Anna Gilman, and Grace Edinger" <wde1@-----.com>
Subj: putting it all together
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:26:34 -0400

Bill Hausman wrote:

"Incidentally, doesn't anyone else support the clarinet vertically with
the bell section on their knee while putting on the barrel joint and
mouthpiece?"

I do, Bill!

My grandfather had a method for dismembering - I mean disassembling - a
fly rod that wouldn't come apart: hold it behind your slightly bended
knees, with your wrists up against your knees and thighs, and firmly but
steadily spread your knees apart. It came apart in a straight line and
never went crashing off across the room or smashing into something close
by, and allowed a bit of twisting in the process if that was necessary.
Might work for stuck clarinet joints too.

Bill E.