Klarinet Archive - Posting 001003.txt from 2003/03

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: Re: [kl] To Walter Grabner (was: Bass clarinet barrel)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:05:54 -0500

<><> Richard Bush wrote:
Why didn't you consider reducing the corked tenon of the mouthpiece
instead before altering the receiving socket of the barrel?

I did consider it; or more accurately, the repairman did. It would
have been a wood-on-wood fit afterwards.

It was older clarinet (barrel) and a brand new Fobes mouthpiece. The
two of them just didn't match. The repairman has his own clarinet of
the same make & model, into whose barrel the Fobes mouthpiece fitted
perfectly. So it was clearly my own instrument's problem.

At the time, I did not understand just how good the repairman is. So I
emailed Howarth in England and I asked them what to do. They reassured
me, based on the measurements that the repairman had taken. Looking
back, I was being obsessively overcautious.

Equally as humorous (in retrospect), I practically.... well, it involves
underwear.... the first time that this repairman picked up a pair of
pliers and said, "We need to bend this key....." I'd never bend a key
myself, but he knew exactly what he was doing, of course.

Cheers,
Bill

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