Klarinet Archive - Posting 000421.txt from 2006/03

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Buffet Quality Control (was Rossi quality flaw)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:47:00 -0500


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:o4rmondtoby@-----.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:47 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet Quality Control (was Rossi quality flaw)
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> Bill=A0Hausmann wrote:
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> > Sometimes we find post holes drilled all the
> > way through into the bore [of an E11]
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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>=20

Sometimes? Sure....sometimes???

I've been teaching in Richardson, Tx, Plano, Tx since 1974. The E11 is =
the
beginning clarinet of choice and has been for years. I've seen 1000's =
and I
have NEVER seen a post hole drilled into the bore. I'm sure it
happens....but I think someone should be clear about what "sometimes" =
means
in their world. What does "sometimes" mean? Does it =3D once, twice or =
more?

Forest Aten

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