Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Yamaha intermediate(?) clarinet
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:30:26 -0400

At 05:33 PM 9/3/98 -0700, Matt Palasik wrote:
I was observing Larry Leads a repair tech who has been working
>on instruments for at least twenty years. He was trying to remove a
>screw from a yamahe clarinet that had corroded to the point of no
>retun. He spent nearly an hour and a half on this one screw and i asked
>ghim was this normal. He replied on most clarinets it would only take
>him about 20 minutes to do it. But yamahas are made a little different
>which make them harder to repair at times.
>
Of course, with proper care and regular maintenance, as one would expect a
Klarinet member to lavish upon his/her instrument, problems like a corroded
screw would never occur!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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