Klarinet Archive - Posting 000314.txt from 2006/02

From: Gary Van Cott <gary@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Please Help - R13 Greenline Top Joint Broken!
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:05:29 -0500

One of my son's "friends" administered this test to my son's clarinet a few
years ago.

Gary

At 07:22 PM 2/24/06, you wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Van Cott [mailto:gary@-----.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:17 PM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: RE: [kl] Please Help - R13 Greenline Top Joint Broken!
> >
> > If you sit on them on a bed they break.
> >
> > Gary
> >
>In my freshman year at North Texas, I was practicing in my dorm room (yeah,
>I wasn't supposed to.) I set my clarinet on my bed during a break. My room
>mate came in the room....and sat on my clarinet (accident), breaking the
>middle tenon. Off to repair it went for the replacement of the top key
>joint. Intonation was never right between the two joints after that and I
>sold the clarinet as a "student" instrument.
>[Forest E Aten]

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