Klarinet Archive - Posting 000814.txt from 1999/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Some disturbing news?Re Jupiter instruments
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 23:55:03 -0500

At 11:01 AM 12/23/1999 EST, Barbara Duman wrote:
>I teach in a middle school, and we ask the beginning students not to
purchase
>Jupiter. We have had problems on saxophones with the posts spreading apart
>and the rods then falling off with no way to repair them. The metal is VERY
>thin which seems to be the problem basically. The flutes have had the same
>problem, flexible metal, and the pads do not cover completely after a few
>months.
>
We have not carried the saxophones, so I cannot comment on them directly.
We have not seen significant problems with the flutes, though, and several
private teachers in the area are very high on them. Your problems with the
saxes sound entirely repairable, however. Any competent tech should be
able to fix them easily. Standard, run-of-the-mill middle school
instrument abuse is probably responsible for most of the trouble, although
thin/soft metal will certainly magnify this.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
Essexville, MI 48732 http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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