Klarinet Archive - Posting 000042.txt from 2009/07

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] eefer reeds For those that use them
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:58:46 -0400

I am one of the several on here that cut down Bb reeds to use on Eb. In my case Vandoren standard cut Bb # 5's on an open mouthpiece I made specifically for use with a Bb reed.

In packing up our Santa Cruz and Saratoga stores to move to MONTEREY I ran across HUNDREDS of Eb reeds. Lots of them are SOLO ESSER reeds handmade by Gebhard Steuer in Lindau Bodensee back in '69 or earlier. Fabulous cane. LOTS more are VIBRATORS!!!!!! Despite their advertising gimmick of a set of slits down the bark, these are really good cane. I would guess they are from when I was in high school, back in '64?

It is all GREAT CANE, for those that use Eb reeds

Our new store is at 856 Lighthouse Ave, Monterey, California, 93940. We are right above Cannery Row and the Aquarium. I don't know what our new phone number will be, but they tell us our old one (831) 425-5658 is supposed to ring through.

I would love to see any of you there.

Dave Poole and I have been collecting old clarinets for years, and hope to have lots of them on display. Also available for perusal by conductors, and bandsmen will be the Hastings, Band Library. Those who have been in the old Santa Cruz store know how much we crammed into that tiny, narrow deep store, but we couldn't get to the library in the back room. On Lighthouse, it feels HUGE. There is plenty of room to sit down at desk and check out clarinet parts if you want to. The Hastings Band played at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz from 1886 to 1957. Except for my personal library, there is little there newer than 1950. There are lots of pieces or arrangements from the 1800's. When vacationing in Monterey feel free to visit, we are only 3 very short blocks from Cannery Row and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Lelia Loban <lelialoban@-----.net>
>Sent: Jul 13, 2009 4:59 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: [kl] eefer reeds
>
>Richard D Bush wrote,
>>You are running the risk of splitting the barrel
>>wide open by removing the rings. If a cork
>>happens to swell you could loose the barrel.
>>The receiving sockets have rings on them for
>>a reason...the same reason an old fashioned
>>wooden bucket has bands around it; that being
>>to give strength and hold it together. >
>
>Please heed Richard Bush's warning! I'm not a professional repair tech, but
>as the owner (I still pretend I'm not a collector...) of -- well, let's just
>say "several" old clarinets, most of which I bought at flea markets and
>junktique stores, I restore clarinets as a hobby. The most severe damage I
>encounter in the instruments I decide not to buy (because they're beyond my
>ability to fix) is severe cracking. The crack almost always runs through a
>tenon or tenon socket and it happens more often on the barrel than anywhere
>else. Usually, on a barrel, the crack runs the entire length of the barrel.
>Often, that crack splits so wide open that if I hold the barrel up and look
>through it as if it were a spyglass, I can see daylight all the way down the
>crack. It's no coincidence that, in these especially bad cases, I usually
>find one or both of the rings rattling around loose in the case -- and it's
>apparent that the rings came loose and fell off first, before the barrel
>cracked, because the crack has so grossly increased the diameter of the
>barrel that the rings can't be slid back on again. I think simply closing
>the crack wouldn't do the job: the buyer would need a new barrel, because
>the internal dimensions of the old one change when the barrel splits wide
>open that way. It's a Humpty Dumpty.
>
>It's a lot cheaper to find and buy reeds that fit, and put that barrel ring
>back on while the clarinet is still in sound condition.
>
>Lelia Loban
>http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/Lelia_Loban
>
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