Klarinet Archive - Posting 000882.txt from 2001/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Boosey & Hawkes wood clarinet
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 19:15:29 -0500

At 04:29 PM 1/26/2001 -0600, Ginger Calkins wrote:
>I got a link from someone at jazz-clarinet.com for a do-it-yourself
>repad kit, for around $20. I'm perfectly willing to work on it myself,
>but I have no training and no resources, except you here on the list.
>How can I go about at least repadding this horn, what kind of training
>is available [for free] and how many of you think I should just offer it
>up as a sacrifice to the clarinet gods and look elsewhere? Do I need
>special tools? Can I get thems somewhere?

Unless you feel REALLY comfortable about completely disassembling and
reassembling a clarinet, and remembering where all the screws and little
slivers of key cork go, and how to adjust the keys afterward, I think I'd
suggest the professional route. Someone with STRONG mechanical skills
might tackle it, but expect it to take a VERY long and frustrating time to
finally get it adjusted reasonably well. Unless you are really good or
really lucky, the best outcome you are likely to get is only being out the
$20 and a lot of time when you give up and take it to the shop for a REAL
repad. (Not that I follow my own advice in matters like this -- my first
experience with the saxophone was tearing apart and repadding an old
C-melody about 20 years ago now. You can learn a LOT about an instrument
that way! THEN I learned to play it, and its variously-sized
cousins. Someday I'll get that old thing playing like I want it to,
probably after re-repadding it with resonator pads.)

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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