Klarinet Archive - Posting 001190.txt from 1998/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Care (Maintenance) and Feeding of Clarinets
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:00:05 -0500

Thanks to Jack Kissinger for all those repair book suggestions! I use three
of the repair manuals he recommended and find them all very helpful.

Jack Kissinger wrote:
>>The band director's guide to instrument repair [by] R. F. "Peg" Meyer.
Edited by
Willard I. Musser. Published Port Washington, N.Y., Alfred Pub. Co. [c1973]

Band instrument repairing manual / by Erick D. Brand. Published Elkhart, Ind.
:
[s.n.], c1946. Edition 4th ed.

Instrument repair for the music teacher / by Burton Stanley ; photos by Rick
Washik. Published Sherman Oaks, CA : Alfred Pub. Co., c1978>>

Good news: The Stanley book is back in print now, from the same publisher, for
$16.95 in trade paperback. I bought my copy, new, in a music store, just a
few weeks ago. The publisher's current address is: Alfred Publishing Co.,
Inc., 16380 Roscoe Blvd., Suite 200, P. O. Box 10003, Van Nuys, CA
91410-0003. This book teaches the basic skills, with clear photographs.

Since Alfred also published R. F. Meyer's book above, it might be worth asking
whether that's back in print, too, because IMHO it's first-rate. I found the
1973 edition in a used book store. It's highly specific and detailed, with
many useful tables and diagrams. I think it's worth owning more than one
book, since each author emphasizes and illustrates different things.

I can also recommend Ferree's screw board. It's important to keep track of
which screw goes where, because they're a bunch of different sizes. BUT ...
keep a magnet handy anyway, for finding the itty- bitty ~!=#$%^&*! screw that
you will drop in spite of the screw board, because once liberated, this screw
will go rolling merrily six feet across the dark gray concrete workshop floor
in an unknown direction. You will discover that this screw, like all clarinet
screws, has undergone rigorous military training in evasive maneuvers. To
find it, you will have to go crawling on your hands and knees and pawing
through all the sawdust, wadded-up pieces of tape, fluff balls, dust bunnies,
pennies, scraps of paper towel with blood on them from where you stabbed your
fingers on the ~!=#$%^&*! needle springs, dead bugs, small pieces of worn-out
sandpaper, Q-tips, pipe cleaners, bits of cork, rotted clarinet pads you
tossed in the general direction of the trash can and sorta missed, and other
standard-issue workshop detritus you're going to sweep up any day now. The
magnet will pick up roughly 8 nails, 2 thumb tacks, 6 washers and 12
miscellaneous non-relevant screws before it finds your clarinet screw, but
nonetheless will reduce the number of cusswords you mutter by at least a
third.

Lelia
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