Klarinet Archive - Posting 000248.txt from 1999/09

From: "Daniel Stover" <kasparguy@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More Stuffiness
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:42:28 -0400

It could be that you maybe have a small leak on a side of your G#/D# pad. I
had a similar problem on my junker flute when i first got it. The D
(basically same finger scheme as the second register of clarinet) was
stuffy, and i noticed the pad wasn't totally sealing all the way around and
had to bend the pad cup slightly to make it touch the tone hole all the way
around.

Now, of course, if i was playing on a $1000-$20,000 flute i wouldn't have
done that myself. And being that the clarinet doesn't have the same thin
cups and key arms as flute it wouldn't really be possible to do a similar
make-shift repair.

Try taking off the bell and the mouthpiece and cover the end of the horn
with your calf and finger a low E. Then blow into the horn and see of you
hear ot feel an air leak anywhere. If there is no noticable leak, then it
may be that the F/C key isn't opening enough, as you suspected.

Daniel Stover
Houston, TX
kasparguy@-----.com

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From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] More Stuffiness
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 14:10:56 -0700

It seems as though every stuffy note problem is familiar to at least one
other
list member, and thus far every request has been met with several good
suggestions. Thus, I'll through mine into the ring.

I play in a community band with a Vito, using a Portnoy BP2 mouthpiece and a
Legere 2.5 reed. My fourth-line D is noticeably stuffy; I have to use
significantly more air pressure to get the same volume as other nearby
notes.
I don't notice it on C or B. I haven't noticed the problem on the low G,
but
that might simply be because the note doesn't occur as often.

I'm wondering if the pad on the F/C key might be too close to the hole. Is
that a familiar problem? I hesitate to dink with it, because of the linkage
with the F#/C# and E/B keys, but I can't think of what else might be unique
to
the D.

Suggestions?

--
- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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