Klarinet Archive - Posting 000590.txt from 1999/06

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Stuffy As
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:05:48 -0400

Fred Jacobowitz mentioned to David:

<<<Before you give up on your R-13, be aware that quite often the problems
with R-13's are related to the register tube (the metal tube that suts under
the pad of the register key). On my first A clarinet it was too long and it
made all the throat tones flat, the low range unusable and the whole horn
STUFFY. . . If this is the case, I can tell you how to get this instrument
into great tuning shape. You can e-mail me back if that's the case and you
want to pay only $100 or so instead of $1800 for a new horn.>>>

Fred--

You have just described my A, a Buffet R-13 serial # 76xxx. Sine I too do
not wish to spend more than $100 (because with 2 itty bitty kids and an
oboe-playing wife, I don't get to), could you please enlighten us all? Or
at least just me?

Thanks!

kjf

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