Klarinet Archive - Posting 000266.txt from 2003/04

From: b1rite@-----. Rite)
Subj: [kl] Adjustments (was: floor hamsters)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:33:23 -0400

<><> Bob Headwrote:
On a more relevant note - I have just put my R13 1950's Buffet Crampon
in for a full service and the technician assures me I will definitely
notice the difference. [snip] Just WHAT will be different?

The cumulative effect of many tiny adjustments probably will astonish
you. A tweak here and a small adjustment there.... it all adds up. I
know it astonished me the first time that I had a general
repair-and-adjustment.

You'll probably feel a change in resistance, and intonation problems may
disappear (eliminating the fatigue of fighting them) because tiny leaks
will have disappeared, tiny bits of gunk will have been removed which
disturb the air column, etc etc. Perhaps a spring will cause a key to
return just a bit faster, perhaps a screw will allow a pad to raise just
a bit higher or lower, you may have a leaky pad of which you were
unaware, and so forth.

<><> most bush creatures here are very cuddly (leave out the snakes
and spiders!).

Returning "off topic" (but not fiction) one of my favorite photographs
of my daughter is her sitting on a park bench with a.... drats! I've
forgotten the name, it's huge and looks like an overgrown hamster or a
walrus out of water, weighs about 40 kilos, not very active.... anyway,
it's large enough that she's strugglng in the photo to keep it from
slipping off her lap, and her contortions are a crackup.

My second favorite photo is the lorikeets sitting all over her at the
bird park.

My funniest memory is that, at the kangaroo park, she wondered what it
feels like inside a pouch. The zoo specimens are tame, of course, and
she was able to get next to one of them and put her hand inside its
pouch. She reported to me that it was very moist in there. A local
fellow burst out laughing when he heard my daughter say this. He
explained that kangaroos don't have plumbing in their pouches. The
pouch tissues absorb the joey's 'wastes' instead. My daughter didn't
understand for a moment, and then she turned three shades of green and
made a dash for the loo.

Cheers,
Bill

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