Klarinet Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wrong use of words in the music trades
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 00:34:43 -0400

At 07:14 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Lars Kirmser wrote:

> > 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
>
>Hello Bill etal,
>It is not quite so simple as that. As it turns out, Erick Brand was wrong
>as well

As someone else already pointed out, the dictionary definition of "brazing"
begins with the word "soldering." The two words are essentially
equivalent. To argue otherwise is quibbling.

>(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 book is somewhat obsolete now, to be sure, but still full of good
information.

>...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.

Neither one is listed in the dictionary I have available. It looks like a
case of alternate spellings of the SAME word to me.

>Sorry for being anti-semantics

Actually, you are being PRO-semantics! *I* am the one who is saying the
minor semantic discrepancies do not matter.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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