Klarinet Archive - Posting 000670.txt from 1999/05

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Blow-out
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:30:09 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 7:24 AM
Subject: [kl] re: Blow-out

>Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
>Subject: Re: [kl] blowout
>Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.990515090828.25685B-100000@-----.uk>
>Well --- my Buffet B flat must be around 80 years old, and it certainly
>isn't* "blown out". What *has* happened is that the sockets are worn, and
>so is the keywork, especially the bearing surfaces at the ends of the
>rods.
>What are supposed to be the physical signs of "blow-out"?
>Roger Shilcock
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>A student of mine graduated last year had an A Clarinet that he had
>purchased from the Curtis Institute. It was dated around 1911, and was a
>Buffet. The Clarinet was very, very unfocused (no ping), and quite uneven
>playing in all registers. Would the Curtis Institute accept such a terrible
>Clarinet as it's own? I doubt it (and they did eventually get rid of it).
>That's Blow-out to me. The player playing it was a member of the top
>Woodwind Quintet at last years Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
>(in other words, he was quite an advanced player), and had to fight his
>Clarinet every step of the way.
>
>David Blumberg
>playit@-----.com
>http://www.mytempo.com

But do you have any way of knowing how good or bad this particular
individual instrument was when it was new?? It might have been like that
from day one. At this point in time you cannot tell. Even the best makers
put out a few lemons.

Dee Hays
Canton, SD

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