Klarinet Archive - Posting 000505.txt from 1999/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Horwath
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:52:02 -0500

At 06:42 PM 2/13/99 EST, GrabnerWG wrote:
>In a message dated 2/12/99 9:04:35 PM Central Standard Time,
bhausman@-----.com
>writes:
>
><< Roger, I know we already went around once on this subject regarding
> Buffets, but I say again, if additional post-factory undercutting and
> adjusting is required to make an instrument play in tune, the workmanship
> is not at all good, by definition, regardless of how beautiful the
> instrument might look. >>
>
>Bill......I have put nearly TWENTY years of modifying, tinkering with,
>adjusting, and extending my Buffett bass clarinet to get the thing to play
the
>way I think it ought to!
>Now, maybe Brannen could have done for me in a week, but I'll tell ya one
>thing - the horn needed a lot of work post factory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
I never stop tinkering with my instruments, either, trying to get that last
"molecule per millenium" of air leak out, etc. But something as major as
undercutting needed to correct intonation just tells me they didn't do it
right in the first place and arrogantly expect you to pay someone else to
have it fixed right. At the prices charged for professional-grade
instruments, that is ludicrous! You might as well save some money and go
buy a Selmer 100 or a Normandy and have IT adjusted!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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