Klarinet Archive - Posting 000513.txt from 2000/12

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Repair recommendations for a old Buffet B flat?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 08:22:06 -0500

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From: <DGross1226@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] Re: Repair recommendations for a old Buffet B flat?

> In a message dated 00-12-09 16:15:59 EST, Dee hays writes:
>
> << No specialist is needed. The mechanics are the same as current
instruments
> so any competent repairmen can do the work.>>
>
> Dee,
>
> I respectfully disagree. Several years ago Clark Fobes overhauled my 1935
> Buffet which I believe was one of the last clarinets he worked on, and
just
> may have been one of the straws that broke the camel's repair back.
Shortly
> thereafter he went into mpc and barrel making exclusively. The reason is
> that the alloy used for the keywork on the old Buffets is much, much
softer
> than the current models and Clark had a devil of a time getting and
keeping
> the horn in adjustment. But Clark should give the definitive opinion on
the
> details of overhauling old Buffets.
>
> Don Gross
> La Canada, California

Although this makes the adjustment harder, it still should be within the
realm of normal technicians. I have a 1940 Pruefer that also has very soft
key metal. Yet each of the techs that has worked on it has mentioned no
special problems. No doubt Clark was after the level of perfection that
only a limited number of people are even capable of whether the horn be old
or new.

However, my main point was intended to be that the it uses or can use the
same pads, corks, and springs used for today's instruments and that being a
Boehm instrument, the adjustment principles are the same.

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