Klarinet Archive - Posting 000933.txt from 1998/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] BRIDGE MECHANISM
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 20:51:24 -0400

At 05:16 PM 8/28/98 -0700, Matt Palasik wrote:
>I saw the plastic adjustment screw on a yamaha i was repairing in the
>shop a few days ago. Unfortunately It has already been returned to the
>owner BUt i believe it wasa Yamaha Alto YAS-52.
>
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>>
>> At 06:55 PM 8/28/98 -0400, Matt Palasik wrote:
>> >Perhaps if they used plastic screws like yamaha uses on its intermediate
>> >and student modell saxes would be better.Or the metal screws attached to
>> >cork like on pro model yamaha saxes.
>> >
>> As both a seller AND an owner of Yamaha saxes, I must ask where you got the
>> idea they use PLASTIC adjustment screws? I've never seen any before.
>>
I just checked my YTS-52 and it does NOT have any plastic screws. If they
ARE now using them, they are probably ONLY for the "bridge" key
adjustments, right? The other adjustment screws, of which there are many,
are too small to be plastic.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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