Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2005/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] loose barrel rings
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:23:28 -0500

At 06:16 PM 2/3/2005 +0200, Daniel Fairhead wrote:
>OK. The situation I was imagining was of taking a clarinet to a less humid /
>more dry place, and finding the rings becoming loose. Then tightening the
>rings,
>if you went back to a humid environment (Say, Larnaka, which gets up to 80+%
>humidity in summer) would the rings be over-tight, and so cause possible
>cracking?

I know someone to whom that happened. A rival shop tightened all his rings
using a compression machine, and within a week of getting it back he had
cracks in THREE tenon sockets!

Bill Hausmann

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

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