Klarinet Archive - Posting 000561.txt from 2003/04
From: b1rite@-----. Rite) Subj: [kl] Doing it yourself Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:38:17 -0400
<><> Richard=A0Bush wrote:
You know Bill, I don't understand why so many people are afraid to take
their clarinets apart.
It's not a matter (imo) of being afraid. Rather, it's a matter of not
knowing.
Once you've admitted that you don't know what the cause of a problem is,
then you have to ask yourself: "If I *do* take this instrument apart,
will I recognize what the problem is, or will I still be confused?
Will I take apart things that were just fine to begin with? How can I
hope to know exactly how tight/loose/high/low/etc to make the parts when
I put them back together if I didn't know what was wrong in the first
place?
Obviously you learn by experience and by watching others. Thanks to
Tony's coaching, I now have no hesitation at cleaning my own register
tube. <three cheers for Fearless Bill!> But when my clarion C
stopped sounding a year or so ago, I couldn't see which pad or cork was
at fault. Should I have taken all the keywork off in order to inspect
everything more closely? No thanks.
Cheers,
Bill
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