Klarinet Archive - Posting 000817.txt from 2003/02

From: "Raycraft" <raycraft@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eefer overhaul
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:36:53 -0500

1970's is VINTAGE?
Sue

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From: "Christy Erickson" <perickso@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Eefer overhaul

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