Klarinet Archive - Posting 000606.txt from 2003/04

From: "Patricia A. Smith" <patricia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Doing it yourself
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:39:02 -0400

B. Rite wrote:
> <><> Richard Bush 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?

I'm glad this topic came up again. Bill, your questions make a great
deal of sense. There are some things that I know how to fix on a horn,
and there are others that I would much prefer to leave to a skilled
repairperson. That, of course, is my personal preference. However, I
definitely should go and clean out my register key - I think it's
overdue for a cleaning! ;-)

Patricia Smith

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