Klarinet Archive - Posting 000267.txt from 2003/04

From: Bob Head <headhousehold@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Adjustments (was: floor hamsters)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:33:24 -0400

Wombat?

Thanks for the encouragement with the clarinet service- can't wait to get it
back now - if it really does make a big difference, I'll be kicking myself
for leaving it so long?
Bob
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From: "B. Rite" <b1rite@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Adjustments (was: floor hamsters)

> <><> 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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