Klarinet Archive - Posting 000118.txt from 2001/05

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Cracking Clarinets
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:00:53 -0400

At 09:18 AM 05/03/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Roger doesn't add one further example from his own experience.
>
>Having purchased a new Prestige and gone through all of the setup expenses, I
>am sure he took care of it as well as he did the other instruments. Yet it
>cracked while under this care, or so I was informed by a usually reliable
>source. Am I misinformed, Roger?
>
>Score: (for RG only) Care preserves - 2, It cracks anyway - 1.

George,

I have had several brand new instruments crack within 6 months of purchase
- including the one you purchased from me! It received a new upper joint -
and played better than new (this was when I found out what Bill Brannen
could do with a clarinet). Your serial number has been stamped to
match. All of the clarinets that I have owned that cracked were cared for
well - but the bottom line, told to me by several repairmen - notably
Brannen, Sayre, and a host of others - including Buffet, Leblanc and
Selmer, is that if a clarinet is going to crack because of a defect in
workmanship or wood issues, it will probably crack within the first
year. I have not had an instrument crack after the first year - ever.

Best wishes,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Clarinet Professor
Director, Symphonic Winds
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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