Klarinet Archive - Posting 000262.txt from 2000/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Clar.mkr. now tone&acoustics
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 22:27:25 -0500

At 11:12 AM 1/8/2000 -0600, Dee Hays wrote:
>>...The thought concerned me enough that I started keeping a jeweller's
>screwdriver
>> of the right size in the bag with my reeds, cork grease and whatnot, so
>that
>> the need to hunt for a tool won't tempt me to act lazy about tightening
>> things up "later.".
>
>I was very fortunate that my first band director went over checking the
>screws and suggested keeping a small screw driver in the case. That's been
>so long ago, I can't even remember *not* having a screwdriver in the case.
>
But the screwdriver is dangerous in the hands of the untrained. I have
"repaired" a number of clarinets at the counter lately by merely loosening
the Ab adjustment screw that someone had tightened all the way down.
Sometimes you see flutes come in with the same problem, magnified, of
course, by the greater number of adjustment screws!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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