Klarinet Archive - Posting 000719.txt from 2000/08

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re-tuning older instruments.
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:55:06 -0400

This is an inquiry for my English colleagues, and whether they know of a
reliable clarinet tuning and service technician they could kindly recommend,
in the South of England.

I am currently blowing on the Leblanc Opus. It`s now nearly 3 years old.
With a Vandoren B45spot M/P, and V12 2 1/2 reeds, I am very comfortable,
and very pleased with the overall response in evenness of tone and
intonation.

My problem is what I was blowing on before. I still have a pair of Leblanc
LL, with the articulated Bb, i.e. the extra ring on the C/G hole which
allows upper reg. Bb to be fingered (T,R)1 0 3 I 0 0 0. (Very handy). These
clarinets are 40 or more years old, and I have been using them for 30 years.
Ted Planas did some infilling and undercutting of some holes, and after
Jeremy Lowe made two new barrels, I am quite disappointed at the poor
intonation developing in both clarinets.

I would like to try just once more to correct this, before I finally throw
them into the Thames. (Is it due to their age?) The clarinets both need a
full service, but I`ve had them serviced before without this intonation
problem correcting.

Please can anyone advise me as to who would (in U.K.) be competent enough to
at least look at them, and to tell me either whether they would re-tune or
not.

Thanks I.A.
Best,
Tony W.

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