Klarinet Archive - Posting 000128.txt from 2001/03

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Bending bass clarinet neck
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:36:49 -0500

Walter Grabner wrote:

>Has anyone body out there (in never-never-land) had the neck piece of
their
>bass bent?

. . .

Bent, no, I've been told (by knowledgable repairman) that bending is not

very practical because of the thickness of tubing. The factory
bending is done by filling the tube with soft metal and uses jigs and
presses of the "don't try this at home" level of sophistication.

However, neck modification has been discussed on the Bass Clarinet list,

which now lives on yahoo. I have files describing a modification
done to the neck of my Bundy BC at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bass-clarinet/files/bundy_neck_mod/

You probably need to register with Yahoo to get there, probably
starting from: http://groups.yahoo.com/ If Walter
or anyone else would like to see this and you don't want to bother
with Yahoo I can send them to you privately.

Mark Thiel (who went ahead and popped the dough on a new bass
anyway before his kids could blow it on college)

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