Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 2006/02

From: "Rommel John Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb barrel?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:45:17 -0500

More on Technical stuff.

Banding or drawing cracked wood together, needn't be a major endeavor, and
devising a saddle-jig for barrels would actually be simple and inexpensive
to do. The is have the space to work in and I mean a relatively clean
space, with lots of room, and a decent knowledge of what you are doing.

And anyone who has done work in fine carpentry and understands the nature of
wood and its qualities will also understand how it is likely to "check" or
crack and how best to remedy that mishap.

The key is the application of just the right amount of pressure as not to
stress the rest of the wood fibers around those already damaged. Afterall,
some checks, once repaired, have been know to migrate to another reason,
this is why some carpenters fill them rather than "fix" them.

But the clarinet and checking in it poses a different problem, becasue
filling will affect tonal quality and sound. And thus possibly ruin the
instrument. That is why I would never purchase a clarinet that has its
wood repaired, becasue you never know how the technician performed the
repair and if the lack of quality in the repair was the reason why the
clarinet is back on the market. (Am I being a snob again in this manner of
thinking?)

To me caveat emptor are the best watch words we can live by, and why a used
clarinet should never be purchased through E-Bay, or sight unseen or
unplayed. You just don't know what you will be getting, and that is why the
deal might be a bargain at the time.

We have to treat our instruments as the true instruments of precision that
they are, and so often we simply take them for granted, as if they'll always
be there. Just remember entropy affects everything, and if anything pads
will wear out before wood cracks, but something will always needs to be
fixed every so often on your clarinet, even if you take the utmost best care
of it.

Shalom,

Rafi
----- Original Message -----
From: <OhSuzan419@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Eb barrel?

>
> >My guess is that banding an and eefer barrel by someone who really
>knows
> >what they're doing is going to run at least a hundred bucks, probably
>more.
>
>
> As earlier posters have suggested, this is basically a job for
Super-Glue.
>
> I've been playing my eefer with a super-glued barrel for a year, and it
is
> just fine.
>
> Susan
>
>
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