Klarinet Archive - Posting 000820.txt from 2003/02

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eefer overhaul
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 15:36:56 -0500

Christy,

If you tell us where you are, we might can direct you to someone
in your area.

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - New York City
--- Christy Erickson <perickso@-----.net> wrote:
> 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

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