Klarinet Archive - Posting 000158.txt from 2004/11

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Repair & Some Questions
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:21:42 -0500

At 01:38 PM 11/4/2004 -0600, Tom.Henson@-----.com wrote:
[...]

>This is why a $400 overhaul is actually quite reasonable if indeed all these
>things are taken into account. I have learned to do all this and more. I
>have experimented with Oil Immersion Therapy with very good success also. I
>have learned to make and apply key and tenon corks as well. Loose posts can
>be fixed usually with a paper shim underneath the post. About the only
>things I can not due are to tighten loose rings and repair cracks, generally
>anything having to do with working the wood. Perhaps one day I will also
>attempt this.

A simpler way to put this be may be "you get what you pay for". The
exception being repair people who do truly unnecessary work, but these
people don't last long (except maybe doing student work at a less than
reputable local music store) and almost as a rule are never recommended by
professionals.

[...]

>My clarinet teacher (Jeffrey Lerner - Studied with Bonade 8 years and
>teaching me the fingers ahead technique) was amazed when he wanted me to
>play a Rose etude that started on a middle B natural. He told me that this
>note is the hardest note on the clarinet to play because it requires a lot
>of air and is usually stuffy. Boy was he surprised when I was able to play a
>perfectly clear middle B at a double pianissimo with ease. I can start on
>this note at a volume that only a microphone would pick up, crescendo, and
>then back down to a volume that is almost inaudible to the human ear, and
>with no air hissing sound whatsoever or loss of tone color. This is not an
>accident, but the result of a properly adjusted clarinet.

And a properly adjusted clarinet player, no doubt.

-Adam

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