Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 1997/10

From: Dee Hays <deerich@-----.net>
Subj: Re: crack repair
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:57:52 -0400

the Grouch wrote:

> The responses to this refer to pinning. Clearly I'm not up on the way
> clarinets are repaired these days. Whatever happened to the old technique
> of shrinking metal bands onto the instrument to pull the crack back together
> ?
> --
> Wm Laubengayer
> Credibility is far more important than Capability

I am curious and would like to add to my store of knowledge. When did they use
the metal band technique to repair cracks in clarinets. I have seen only one
clarinet that had been repaired by shrinking metal bands on it but it was over
50 years old (though I don't know when the repair was made or how much older the
clarinet might really have been).

Two of the clarinets that I have had for over 30 years had been pinned before
they came into my possession. One had been poorly done and the repair is quite
obvious (but it was a student level instrument so I am not bothered by it). On
the other one, the repair is virtually invisible.

Dee Hays
deerich@-----.net
Canton, SD