Klarinet Archive - Posting 000234.txt from 2004/05

From: Tony Pay <tony.p@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] left handed C# F# key
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 19:14:56 -0400

On 11 May, "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:

> > From Richard Bush:
> >
> > Rather than let us all speculate and grope in the dark for answers, I
> > humbly suggest to Nicholas that he schedule an appointment with someone
> > who is well equipped to give him sound answers before he or a repairman
> > take a hacksaw to the keywork of his instrument.
>
> Richard,
>
> On the contrary, I think the recommendation to talk to his regular tech
> *was* pretty much saying that someone needs to see and diagnose the problem
> first hand.

But I thought he himself *had* diagnosed his problem 'first hand'. His only
questions were, in his first post:

> Is there such a thing as a lefthanded C# extension that is good?

...and in his second:

> 1) It is so far away and 2) It is hard to press all the way down with the
> pinkie. Is there an extension for the left handed C#, F# key?

...to which perfectly explicit demand someone said that it was possible for a
technician to make him such an extension; and I further said he could
experiment himself with very little effort, and certainly without affecting
his clarinet irreversibly, to see whether or not an extended key would solve
his problem:

http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2002/05/000255.txt

...for anyone who missed it.

Not much speculating or groping in the dark here, I suggest.

Tony
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