Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 2004/01

From: "Kevin Fay" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] FW: Little Teflon Doughnuts
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 13:34:04 -0500

One of the benefits of the holiday season is that I get a little more =
time
to practice.=A0 I pulled out my Noblet C to run through some excerpts =
=96 I'm
going to be playing the Verdi Requiem later this season and thought it =
might
be a good thing not to go to rehearsal with a horn not touched in a =
couple
of years.
=A0
It's a reasonably good little clarinet, esp. given that I didn't pay a
fortune for it.=A0 It's seen a bit of use, both by yours truly and =
friends
that have asked to borrow it from time to time.=A0 It still seals up =
fine.=A0
The annoying thing is that the keys make too much *&%$#@-----.=A0 I =
could
schlep the thing up to Morrie Backun in Vancouver, but it's just a =
couple of
the pivot tubes rattling around the rods.=A0=20

I should be able to fix this myself.=A0 In his book The Working =
Clarinetist,
Peter Hadcock gives pretty good directions on how to swedge keys =96 I =
think I
could do this, either by swedging with the appropriate tool or =
accomplish
the same by inserting one of those little Teflon doughnuts between the =
tube
and the post.
=A0
Where does one get either swedging pliers or little Teflon doughnuts?
=A0
Thanks much,
=A0
kjf

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