Klarinet Archive - Posting 001199.txt from 1998/12

From: "Ed Maurey" <edsshop@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: Re: [kl] Care (Maintenance) and Feeding of Clarinets
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:54:11 -0500

For finding itty bitty parts on the floor a good, strong flashlight is a
big help. It makes little stuff shine just enough to spot. It's beam also
disciplines your eyes in their seach.

Years ago I lost a G#-D# key while doing a routine repadding. I never
found it... Bad day. Years later I told an old repairman about loosing
a key. He laughed and said that was nothing. He once lost all the slides
from a customer's double french horn!

Ed Maurey
> From: CEField@-----.com
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: Re: [kl] Care (Maintenance) and Feeding of Clarinets
> Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 7:47 PM
>
>
> In a message dated 12/30/98 6:58:32 PM, Lelia wrote:
>
> <<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. >>
>
> The SAME is true for the little coil spring under the G#/C# key on some
> Leblanc clarinets. One of these springy things is lurking somewhere in my
> dining room as we speak. Despite reasonable attempts at housecleaning
over the
> past two years, the spring has yet to appear. I think it actually rolled
down
> to the laundry room to join the missing socks...
>
> Cindy
>
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