Klarinet Archive - Posting 000788.txt from 2003/02

From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Eefer overhaul
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:36:24 -0500

I have a 1970's vintage E-flat clarinet. It's a Buffet Evette and the =
last
time my woodwind man looked at it, he said it looked like it had never =
been
overhauled. It desperately needs something before I have to play it in =
our
city band starting in May but the man who works on my clarinets is =
booked up
and couldn't do it before then. Any ideas or recommendations? I simply
don't trust the local music stores with my clarinets. Last year, I =
borrowed
one of our local high school's A clarinets for an orchestra concert. It =
was
seriously out of adjustment, needed corks, etc... I took it to one =
local
man who lightly patched things up enough to make it playable for the
concert. When I got it again in the fall (after the orchestra director =
said
it had been in for an overhaul) it was in the same shape it had been the
last time I'd played it. I talked to the man who supposedly "completely
overhauled it" and of course he became very defensive. Swore up and =
down he
had taken it apart completely-all BS of course. I told the school music
teacher the school had been ripped off and I would never take any of my
instruments there for anything. =20

Christy Erickson

"Music ought to be a stress reliever, not a stress producer."

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