Klarinet Archive - Posting 000469.txt from 2000/02

From: Don Longacre <nw2v@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: So what happened to the table
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:24:24 -0500

Shouryu writes:
>something else was out of the ordinary - the diamond inscribed on the
>table was no longer present.

My Meyer tenor mp has inscribed on the table foot the diamond shaped figure
or rhombus and inside its perimeter: 7 MEYER LAPPED FACING M My Meyer is
about 7 years old. This emblem is very lightly stamped or burned on the table,
but is crisp and easily read. Please try something. Tip up a desk lamp so the
light is in your eyes. Wipe the table clean on your Meyer and holding the mp,
tip toward the lamp, sight along the table so its surface is in direct lineup
with the pupil of your eye. Then, ever so slightly, raise the tip a degree or
two. The table will become brightly illuminated and any anomolies existing in
its flatness will be clearly defined by a slight shadowing effect. An eye loupe
is even better to observe this. As you hold the mp thus, examine carefully the
area of the table where your emblem "used to be". Compare it to the rest of the
table surface. With a bit of practice, one can see the faint scoring created by
the mfgr's milling process. Sometimes they run axially, the length of the table,
sometimes cross-wise to the table depending on the origin of the mp. Warpage
should be clearly evident even to an untrained eye unless it is temporarily
induced by an overtightened lig and the mp "springs back" when released. Try
this for the fun of it. My curiousity on the missing emblem is overwhelming,
Shouryu.

I'm not easily given to conjecture, BUT its hard to repress the idea that sometime
back in the genealogy of your Meyer some previous owner got clever with some 600
wet/dry paper and tried to "improve" the facing? Your once having seen the emblem
on your Meyer discounts that brilliant notion. My mind will sometimes play tricks
on where I've seen something or heard something and a reality check shows I had it
wrong. BTW, I was impressed with the Meyer but later set it aside in favor of the
Vandoren Java T45. Too, the Meyer numbering system puts the tip opening of my 7
Meyer just a twit more open than the Otto Link 5 which I guage as a relative
standard for judging other mps. You might have to call in Lelia Loban's
repetoire of mouthpiece demons. They'll find the emblem for you.

Don Longacre, who...
is convinced Rock & Roll makes
mediocrity seem like a virtue

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