Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 2006/03

From: o4rmondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Quality Control (was Rossi quality flaw)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:47:59 -0500

Bill=A0Hausmann wrote:

> Sometimes we find post holes drilled all the
> way through into the bore [of an E11]

Bill... I'm stunned. I presume you mean that there is no leak because
the post plugs the hole (so long as the post doesn't loosen), and thus
the only 'damage' is the effect of a small perturbance which (the odds
are) is not located at a wave peak.

But still, when I think of the polishing that's supposed to happen
inside a decent instrument, it boggles my mind a bit (from Buffet).
I'm sure that you wouldn't have posted this if it weren't accurate.

A couple of months ago, I was bored while waiting for my daughter to
finish her guitar lesson, and I examined $289 clarinets from somewhere
in the Far East. Plastic cuttings were hanging inside the bore,
including a curly-queue at one end, and there was no polishing
whatsoever. I gave the clerk behind the counter my most sarcastic
look, but at least the chips will be swabbed out by the first person to
play it (assuming a chip doesn't lodge in a tone hole). But nothing
will get rid of an extra dead-end hole inside the instrument.

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