Klarinet Archive - Posting 000005.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: Prestige bass register mechanism
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 11:13:58 -0500

from ROBERT HOWE:
> > The register key on the neck of my Prestige bass is opened by a rod that
> > reaches from the top joint. This rod is very loosely sprung and
> > generates little force. The key (on the neck) is too short, it has a
> > pivot in the center rather than on one end and so has little mechanical
> > advantage. The touch point of the rod onto the key on the neck is too
> > close to the pivot. So the neck register key does not open if the neck
> > is in all the way. I do most of my own repairs, and all sorts of
> > oiling, respringing etc. have not done the trick.

Geoff Chadwick responded:
> However, I have just got the bass out, and I see that my key is not
> pivoted at the centre, but closer to the top joint. The arm also has
> a small cut to prevent the rod catching it when the top joint is
> fully in. This is a recent purchase so maybe Buffet have sorted it out.

Robert's Buffet sounds like an older model. The most recent (1997) model
to come out, as well as the two models before that, do not have the pivot
screws as described. Furter, the necks were redesigned in 1993, and the
new necks (much better...as well as more vertical) are far superior to the
older ones.

Roger Garrett

   
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