Klarinet Archive - Posting 000357.txt from 2006/03

From: klarinet <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] fat fingers
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 19:49:15 -0500

Bring a couple of small, thin, cork wedges to slip under the sliver keys, so
they do not open.

Your dealer will appreciate it a lot more than if you brought in a hacksaw
blade. :-)

Glenn B Kantor (GBK)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill" <wde2@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 7:28 PM
Subject: [kl] fat fingers

> I've been thinking about "trading up" from my Noblet Eb (which has
> some very nice aspects along with some frustrating flaws), although
> the unexpected totalling of my daughter's car (it wasn't her fault!)
> may delay that a bit, and a friend in our community band generaously
> brought her fairly new R13 Eb in for me to try out. It then occurred
> to me that I will have a serious problem facing me if I want to try
> out any new instruments: my fingers are too big to play an Eb
> because of the sliver keys, which I have removed (left hand) or cut
> down (right hand) to keep from bumping them all the time. How am I
> going to try out horns? I don't think a dealer is going to be too
> happy about having somebody modifying their instruments just to try
> them out. By the way, I bought the Noblet just to fool around with
> on my own, and ended up playing it in our band full-time (except when
> there's no Eb part); that's how I came to the conclusion that I
> needed to do a little "repair" work on it so that I could play
> presentably. Finger reduction surgery is not an acceptable solution.
>
> Bill Edinger
>
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