Klarinet Archive - Posting 000906.txt from 1999/07

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Repair Pet Peeves
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:20:35 -0400

Cindy wrote,
>Today it took me nearly a half hour just to clean all the gunk out of the
pad cups on a clarinet that I am working on. The previous repairer must have
owned stock in a glue/cement factory.>

>If you repair clarinets as a profession or hobby, what's YOUR pet peeve?>

The first metal clarinet I repaired (hobby, not pro) had pads rotted right
through to the backing, but by jones, those pads had held. Not one had
fallen out. In fact, I couldn't melt them out and had just tons of fun
digging them out with a slotted-head screwdriver, then digging out the rest
of the contact cement with dental picks, then cleaning out the residue with
acetone.

But my very favorite job is cleaning out a mouthpiece formerly owned by
someone who practiced the clarinet during lunch, regarded toothpaste as a
Communist plot, never heard of a mouthpiece brush and fervently believed that
exposing a mouthpiece to water (let alone the horrors of detergent, mouthwash
or other such menacing chemicals) could do it irreparable harm.

Gag me with a Rico Royal.

Lelia

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