Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 2004/08

From: "Josh Gardner" <jtgardner@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Order in the court (of clarinet)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:25:07 -0400

I agree completely with David's explaination. I figure that since the lower
tenon is the thinnest exposed wooden (or other material) part of the
clarinet, it is probably one of the most fragile and that putting the bell
on first will protect the tenon from the onset. The mouthpiece is fragile
too, so why not let it be the last piece to be put on? I dissassemble in
the exact opposite order for the very same reasons. The mouthpiece is put
away first to avoid a possible encounter with a chair, stand, or other
object and the bell is the last piece to come off so as to reduce the time
that the lower tenon is exposed.

Josh Gardner

>Having the bell on early protects the lower
> joint if it should take a nasty fall. And putting the mouthpiece on
> the assembled clarinet makes a lot more sense than (sometimes I see
> students doing this) putting the reed on the mouthpiece and then the
> mouthpiece on the clarinet as if it drops - Murphy's law and probably
> a few of their corollaries come into motion as well.
>
> David Blumberg

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Klarinet is a service of Woodwind.Org, Inc. http://www.woodwind.org