Klarinet Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2004/07

From: "Lars Kirmser" <musictrader@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wrong use of words in the music trades
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 22:13:32 -0400


> The "Band Instrument Repairing Manual" by Erick D. Brand (the bible of the
> business) refers to it as "silver soldering." It is obviously just a
> semantic point.
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have a saxophone, too bad.
>
Hello Bill etal,
It is not quite so simple as that. As it turns out, Erick Brand was wrong
as well (even thought he was a real trail-blazer in the industry, and a
really creative fellow as the factory manager for Selmer back in the 30's -
40's and 50's, but today, Erick's only real audience are hobbyists or
amateurs who only "dabble" in instrument repair.) His book (c. 1936) was
monumental at that time as the first real attempt to document musical
instrument repair processes used in the manufacturing environment, however,
today repair professionals recognize that many of his techniques are in fact
questionable and sometimes downright dangerous. The point I made initially
re: "silver soldering" vs. "silver brazing" may be easily verified by
carefully investigating the topic by reading serious technical literature.
Another term frequently mis-used in the music industry is the term "swage or
swaging". Many persons in the industry will incorrectly use the word
"swedging or sweging" to describe the act of elongating or drawing hinge
tube out. The word "swaging" is one which has been used for hundreds of
years in the machinist's trades and was borrowed by us in the musical
instrument repair trade.

Sorry for being anti-semantics - Lars Kirmser

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