Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 2004/09

From: "Noel Taylor" <r.n.taylor@-----.uk>
Subj: RE: [kl] Thoughts on a sharp note
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:35:43 -0400

I just watched a fairly well-known repair tech 'add some tuning', as he
expressed it to flatten an individual note. He used some sort of hard wax,
and he made it soft by heating a small metal rod in a bunsen burner and then
distrubuting the wax, from the rod, within the tone hole. I guess this makes
a reversable adjustment, and - hopefully - one that wont be dislodged too
easily by swabbing. He got the tuning right first time as well !

Noel Taylor

-----Original Message-----
From: DWH [mailto:dwh46@-----.net]
Sent: 15 September 2004 22:56
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Thoughts on a sharp note

The electrical tape works quite wall. My first college instructor would
spend a little time on occasion with tape and an Exacto knife, making up a
good supply of different-sized bits of tape and kept a little glass plate in
his Buffet double case. Thus he was always well-prepared for any adjustment.
That seems extreme, but it was his personal and proven (for him) method. The
epoxy idea would likely work well if done by an experienced technician. But
how effective is the epoxy fix if the tuning problem increases/decreases
with changes in temperature, hunidity, etc.?

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