Klarinet Archive - Posting 000710.txt from 1999/05

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Floating witches and clarinets
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:22:12 -0400

LeliaLoban@-----.com schrieb:

I've tried the feeler gauge and can't find any pad leaks with it. I also

> tried a leak light in a dark room. I think I can tell the difference between
> the bright sliver of light that represents a leak and the soft light that
> comes through the translucent pads, but I can't find any leaks that way,
> either.

> The Barbier is a metal clarinet. Right now, the whole upper register squeaks
> and the lower register is hard to blow, especially the bottom stack, with the
> same mouthpiece and reed I've been using on other clarinets with no problems.
> Maybe I need to put the horn away for a few days and then check it again, in
> case I overlooked something obvious, but the pads all seem tight. The barrel
> has an inner sleeve. The upper stack tenon inserts between those two walls
> of the barrel and the inner sleeve. I re-corked the tenon. It fits tightly.
> Is it possible that somehow there's an air leak in that double-walled joint,
> between the inside edge of the tenon and the inner wall of the barrel? The
> outside of the lower edge of the barrel has a slight distortion and a gouge,
> as if the barrel got dropped on a hard surface. It looks like superficial,
> cosmetic damage, but...?
>
> Lelia

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It might be something like that. Have you tried the smoke test? (Nothing to do
with Salem!)

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.de

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