Klarinet Archive - Posting 000518.txt from 1997/11

From: Dirk Kussin <dirk@-----.de>
Subj: Re: your advise about huge crack
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:06:24 -0500

Dear Jeroen,

after your story I would say that the guy of LeBlanc is a really good
business man: just after your cracks he came with his brand new shiny
instruments.

Feeling for the right moment? Or have you ever thought that there
could be a sabotage behind this? ;-) Just joking).

Dirk

Jeroen> hello dear clarinet-players/-lovers, A week ago there was a
Jeroen> very low humidity (someone measured a humid. of 34%)in our
Jeroen> rehearsel-hall (Frits Philips Hall in Eindhoven-The
Jeroen> Netherlands, yes, Frits Philips is the founder of the Philips
Jeroen> (electronica) company): the hobo of our principal hobo-player
Jeroen> cracked (lorie), so did the Buffet Elite clarinet of my
Jeroen> principal and mine (also BC Elite). We (the two
Jeroen> clarinet-players) have a huge crack (5 cm.) on the same
Jeroen> place/spot on the lower part of the clarinet. (left side,
Jeroen> below the left B-key to the two scres left below the B and Cis
Jeroen> key). While playing there comes water/saliva out of it, but
Jeroen> really problems with resistance or tone-quality isn't (yet)
Jeroen> audible. Due to (problably) arrogance of the BuffetCrampon
Jeroen> factory in Paris I will have to wait two months before they
Jeroen> can give me a new lower part of the clarinet (i.e.: new wood)
Jeroen> on wich they put on my old keywork (applicatura). (This has
Jeroen> happened to me a half year ago also!). At the moment I haven't
Jeroen> got a fine instrument to play on, for the time being (those
Jeroen> two months) and Buffet isn't prepared to lend me an identical
Jeroen> Elite clarinet for that time. (I have to give them my whole
Jeroen> clarinet) Well, folks, I will send my cracked clarinet to
Jeroen> Paris after New Year (when times are not so hectic anymore)
Jeroen> but what shall I do in the meantime: *is it possible to fix
Jeroen> this crack for just a while,* I mean: can we "glue it
Jeroen> together"? If so, I will try to find someone to do this for
Jeroen> me. *Not fixing it: is that dangerous?* (I have pretty
Jeroen> important concerts to come!) BTW: The Elite clarinet of my
Jeroen> principal is 8 years old and was never cracked before, now,
Jeroen> suddenly, a crack at the same spot as my Elite clarinet (one
Jeroen> year old) at the same day!!! (as the hobo). How, how on earth
Jeroen> could this happen? (Of course I will sue the orchestra/Frits
Jeroen> Philips Hall). *What can we learn from it?*

Jeroen> And: just a few days ago (one day after the
Jeroen> cracking-experiences) came a representative of the LeBlanc
Jeroen> company (also here in The Netherlands the rep. from the
Jeroen> Vandoren company): he had 14 clarinets with him, and I've
Jeroen> tried them all. I am (by origin) a Wurlitzer player
Jeroen> (Reform-Boehm, so: german setup) and now for a year BC Elite
Jeroen> player. I was very pleased with the LeBlancs (Opus) and
Jeroen> immediately in love with the Rosewood Symphonie: very
Jeroen> characterfull... There was only a Bb available at the moment,
Jeroen> and Paris could make the A available aprox. in februari
Jeroen> 98. Well, I cant't wait to try them, really! I, I would never
Jeroen> have believed I would seriously consider buying LeBlancs, and,
Jeroen> well: I think I will (after I get my Elites back, crackless
Jeroen> and sell them). The only problem I had with all the LeBlancs
Jeroen> was: the throught (how do you spell this), I mean: g', g#',
Jeroen> a', bflat' very, very high pitched (putting your right hand
Jeroen> down while playing these notes wasn't good enough: still 15
Jeroen> cents to high!). But, "Mr LeBlanc" told me, that I could come
Jeroen> to the LeBlanc factories and let the make a special designed
Jeroen> LeBlanc for me, so also the pitch problems could be
Jeroen> solved. Well: that is definitely something else than the
Jeroen> somehow arrogant attitude of the Buffet factory: "if they
Jeroen> sound not well it is your fault, not ours"

Jeroen> OK, it seems my clarinet looks like bleeding, snif, snif,

Jeroen> yours, Jeroen T. Salm The Netherlands jtsalm@-----.nl

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Dirk Kussin dirk@-----.de
Fachbereich 17 Mathematik Raum D2.323
Universitdt-GH Paderborn Tel. (+49) (5251) 60-2636
D-33095 Paderborn --------- http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~dirk/

   
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