Klarinet Archive - Posting 000008.txt from 2007/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Non player needs advice on repair
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:24:54 -0400

I don't expect him/her to fix it necessarily (although it's just not that
big a job to replace a screw if that's all it needs). And in my experience
most band directors are rather more reticent about making small repairs than
necessary - they'd rather send it to a shop than spend the time finding the
problem themselves.

Just today I became involved in a similar situation. No parts falling off an
instrument, but a student complained that her clarinet wouldn't play without
squeaking in the whole right hand chalumeau. I wasn't teaching the lesson
but happened to be sitting in the room at the time doing other work. Her
band teacher (a trumpet player who is, I guess understandably, not so quick
about troubleshooting woodwind problems) asked me to look at it. It took
about 15 seconds (no suction in the upper joint at all) to find that the
adjusting screw was in too far on the throat G# key, keeping it from
closing. A couple of turns on the screw and suddenly the suction was strong
and the squeaks were gone. No shop time, no week's turn-around without an
instrument. Certainly, if a band teacher doesn't have the needed practical
working knowledge of a woodwind mechanism, he and the student are better off
if he leaves a repair to someone who does. Some of us are not so clueless,
though, as the single sentence in your post suggests.

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Kirmser [mailto:syrinx@-----.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:12 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Non player needs advice on repair
>
> Many of us believe that a band teacher is the last person who you should
> ask
> to fix your instrument. - Lars
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:58 PM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Non player needs advice on repair
>
>
> > Let the band teacher at school guide you. If it's just a key that's
> fallen
> > off, he may have an assortment of screws on hand to re-mount the key. If
> > it's actually a broken part, he may send you to a local repair shop as
> the
> > least problematic way to deal with it.
> >
> > Karl Krelove
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: kwradio@-----.net]
> >> Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 8:40 PM
> >> To: KLARINET@-----.org
> >> Subject: [kl] Non player needs advice on repair
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Our son is studying clarinet and in six grade band. He borrowed his
> >> neices clarinet and it now needs repair.
> >>
> >> A small piece that has come off. This piece has two pins, one above
> >> the other. One of the pins is shorter and may have broken. It looks
> >> to me as if those two pins are the rear (toward the player) pivot
> >> points for the parts that move that are operated with the
> >> fingers. It looks as though this piece may have been held in place
> >> with a screw, but I can't figure out how to take it apart to install
> >> this part (even if I had a new one).
> >>
> >> Can someone give me some advice? If this part needs to be replaced a
> >> professional, what is a fair price range for doing it? Is there a
> >> web page with clarinet pictures showing how to take one apart and
> >> re-assemble it?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
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