Klarinet Archive - Posting 000082.txt from 2004/01

From: FrankLucciano@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Cracks, cracks
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 16:32:41 -0500

Due to my cracking incident, I decided to read some old posts on the topic. Most said pinning is the way to go. Then I thought of this... if a violin repairman/maker uses GLUE to fix a cracked surface of a good instrument that costs anywhere between $18,000 and $2,000,000, why not use glue on a $1,800 clarinet? Value aside, the vibrating body of a violin would suffer with metal pins afixed to it. BTW, I had the cracked fixed by an excellent well known repairman... he used superglue. You can't even see the crack anymore. Pinning most likeley will become obsolete in time once the "tradition" of using that method dies. I guess it's hard for some to commit to a new and better method of doing things once one is steeped in tradition. That's not to say all traditions are bad though. The super glue method seems to be the way to go now in 2004.

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