Klarinet Archive - Posting 000085.txt from 2001/05

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Connection of upper and lower keys
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:30:51 -0400

I am a repairman and I wouldn't suggest an unmechanically inclined person to
do it if I thought they would get themselves and their instrument in trouble
doing so. How mechanically inclined must one be to file their fingernails,
prey tell? Send me the clarinet, pay the postage both ways and I'll do it for
free. For others, not so mechanically inclined, send me your fingers and I'll
give them a manicure, sending them back within the week. :-)

"Dee D. Hays" wrote:

> Take this problem to a repairman. I wouldn't do this myself even thought
> I'm mechanically inclinded.
>
> Dee Hays
> Michigan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk Kussin" <dirk@-----.de>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:01 AM
> Subject: [kl] Connection of upper and lower keys
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > On my (3 year old) RC Prestige the connection of the keys of the upper
> > joint with the keys of the lower joint is not working
> > smoothly. Assembling upper and lower joint close together entails that
> > the two pieces of the connection are rubbing against themselves, they
> > are too close together. I have to uncompress (pull out) upper and
> > lower joint by, let say, the tenth part of a millimeter (the gap
> > between upper and lower joint is hardly to see), then there is no
> > problem.
> >
> > But this is not very satisfying: Each time I assemble the clarinet I
> > have to pull out the lower from the upper joint a little bit. I tried
> > to fix the screw on the upper joint repsonsible for the rings on the f
> > and the f# holes (it was only fixed up to half a rotation); but then
> > the problem is even worse. On the other hand, further unfixing the
> > screw does not help.
> >
> > Any hint how to fix the problem? Or is this a case for the repairs
> > man? Or is this rather "normal"/usual and I should live with it?
> > Any comment is welcome.
> >
> > (I hope that my message was comprehensible in spite of my poor
> > english.)
> >
> > Greetings
> > Dirk
> >
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