Klarinet Archive - Posting 000901.txt from 2001/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: first clarinet
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:04:42 -0500

At 01:45 PM 1/27/2001 -0600, Ginger Calkins wrote:
>I too have my first clarinet, a poor best-up Wurlitzer that barely
>survived marching band. I keep it for sentimental reasons, because it
>surely is not worth anything to anyone else....."Survived" is probably
>stretching the truth, as during my final season of marching band, I
>managed to snap the top 1/4" off the lower register, right below the
>silver ring. My father the handyman "fixed" it for me [as we were told
>the cost of the lower register piece basically was the cost of a new
>horn] by
>a: hot gluing the broken piece back on.
> that didn't work; the hot glue did not have enough hold to keep the
>parts together while the instrument was assembled.
>
>b: "pinning" the broken piece back on.
> after the glue didn't work, his next idea was to drill 3 tiny
>holes down through the broken ring into the body of the instrument and
>use tiny finishing nails as pins to hold the 2 pieces together. There
>was marginally more success; the pins provided enough stability to keep
>the part from twisting, however, the did not stay in the holes and when
>the instrument was assembled, it would "strech" as the pins gradually
>pulled out of the lower register.
>
>c: "stapeling" the broken piece back on
> since the problem with the nails dropped vertically was that they
>would not hold the two parts while the horn was assembled, he then bent
>2 nails into a staple shape, and drilled through both the the ring and
>the lower register, and tapped the staples in. That actually did hold
>the horn together, but by that time it was an unsightly mess; there was
>the smear of hot glue all around the ring, which probably helped seal
>the whole mess together, and on the inside, one of the holes he'd
>drilled chipped out on one of the edges, the result being that everytime
>I put my horn together and twisted the upper and lower registers for
>that final connection, the broken edges scored the cork AND the plastic
>of the upper register.
>
>Suffice it to say, when I finally joined band in college, the director
>took one look at my horn....we hadn't even started playing yet...and
>said "Come see me after band. I have a horn that you can play on." :-

I'm sure your father loves you, but need we say more about the advisability
of seeking professional repair services? :-)

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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