Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2010/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] speaker bushes
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:38:36 -0400

At 09:04 PM 8/12/2010, Jennifer Jones wrote:
>I think the sway bar bushings on my car were a hard plastic. What
>about the other tone holes? There is the raised part that sticks up
>inside the rings for the thumb and fingers. That seems like it would
>be added after production of the wooden body of the clarinet. Are
>those a sort of bushing?

OK, bushings don't HAVE TO be metal.

The tone hole chimneys on SOME clarinets are integral to the
body. But on many, and especially less expensive ones, even plastic
ones, the chimneys are inserts which are glued in. This is much
easier to do, and results in far fewer joints being destroyed during
the manufacturing process. The downside is that, unless they are
done correctly, they CAN leak, or even come loose, and often do on
cheap imports from large oriental countries.

Bill Hausmann

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

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