Klarinet Archive - Posting 000243.txt from 1999/09

From: "Aaron Hayden" <haydenmusic@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] A clarinet: stuffy c/g
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 15:26:44 -0400

Check the lower ring key pad, if it is too close to the tone hole this will
cause the notes that you are complaining about to be stuffy.

Aaron Hayden
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Stover <kasparguy@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] A clarinet: stuffy c/g

>
>
>
> I have this same problem on my R-13 A from 1971. C/G and C#/G# and high F
> are always stuffy and my high F often shoots up into the next harmonic to
A.
> Very frustating. I'm currently borrowing my fiancé's A which is much
> nicer (plus has silver plated keys:) and have my teacher looking for one
of
> the level of my fiancé's.
>
> My only two guesses are that the G# pad isn't opening enough or the tone
> hole isn't the right size. I've never taken my A to a repair guy to find
> out which possibility it is.
>
>
> Daniel Stover
> Houston, TX
> kasparguy@-----.com
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 Androyd973@-----.com wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:40:35 EDT
> > From: Androyd973@-----.com
> > Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> > To: Klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: [kl] A clarinet: stuffy c/g
> >
> > A while back I wrote in asking for an a clarinet for a youth orchestra.
> Well,
> > I made some calls and found out that the orchestra owns their own R-13!
> Wasnt
> > I excited to hear that. Well, when I got home and played it the c/g of
> the
> > left hand, middle C and g on top of the staff are very stuffy. This
> confuses
> > me, and scares me because all of the notes around it are pretty good
but
> its
> > just that specific fingering that is stuffy, and there are no pads or
> > anything associated with this note, or at least not really directly,
You
> just
> > cover a tone hole. I am by no means a repair man of any sorts, but I am
> > afraid now that this means something is wrong with the size of the tone
> hole,
> > and I would think that to get that fixed it is costly and time
consuming.
> > Could someone give me some help with this one.
> > Thanlks
> > Andy Brown
> >
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