Klarinet Archive - Posting 000431.txt from 2006/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Buffet Quality Control (was Rossi quality flaw)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:24:43 -0500

At 11:46 PM 3/20/2006 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>Bill Hausmann 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.

No, I mean there IS a leak! We have to remove and then epoxy the post in
to seal the leak.

>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.

I have seen it with my own eyes. I do not understand it. I asked the head
guy today specifically about this issue, and he said that Selmers generally
do NOT have these problems. And that the Greenlines he has seen have also
been free of tonehole issues.

>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.

I have seen that in some Vitos, too.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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