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Author: golfnclarinet
Date: 2010-08-17 19:00
I sent my R13 to repairman yesterday for tweaking.
I usually start practicing around 8:00PM and realized that I don’t have my horn with me when I picked up reed case last night. I pulled out a vintage wooden Bundy from a case and tried it but couldn’t feel the same way I usually got from R13. I gave it up but felt something unhappy.
Do you guys have exact same horn as a backup?
How do you practice while your horn is in repair shop for weeks?
It’ll take a couple of days for me this time but I don’t know what to do when I need a full re-pad or restoration.
I can’t live without my horn!!
Post Edited (2010-08-17 19:53)
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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2010-08-17 19:26
I suspect that you might experience a similar discomfort even if you had another R-13 that you only played when your primary horn was in the shop. No two instruments play exactly alike and if you play exclusively on one clarinet you will likely become so attuned to it's individual quirks that picking up a different instrument will seem strange even if it is the same make and model as your primary.
I have several clarinets and tend to play them in a rotation mostly because I don't like to have them just sit in a case all of the time. I suspect that if you play your Bundy more often then it won't be so much of a shock when you have to go without your R-13 for a while.
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Author: William
Date: 2010-08-17 19:32
Usually, I make an appointment in advance so that when I do visit my repair shoppe, the adjustment or "tweek" is done as I wait. If I do have to leave my main instrument overnight, I have others of the same quality to rely on for practice, gigs, etc. Your Bundy may not have the same "feel" as your R13, but at the very least, your embouchure would get some valuable maintainace time. Even long tones on open G is better than no long tones......
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2010-08-17 20:40
My clarinet is never in the shop for weeks. One week at most, if it's getting an overhaul. Any longer and it's probably sitting in the back of a shop somewhere waiting for the technician to get to it. If the Bb's in the shop, I'll practice stuff on the A.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Franklin Liao
Date: 2010-08-17 23:00
I feel this, but working on other things would make me preoccupied with other thoughts instead of thinking about the horn that's not with you.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-08-18 12:31
One of the advantages of doubling is that if one clarinet needs work, there's alway something else to play. I'm having some music addict's withdrawal symptoms myself right now, though. The instruments are fine but I'm the one "in the shop."
Went to see a movie a couple of weeks ago, at a 12-theater complex in a huge shopping mall. The theater is on the top floor, with access from the top parking deck via a concrete footbridge about as wide as a typical residential driveway. That's a popular theater and there's always lots of pedestrian traffic on the bridge. That day, a couple of great big lummoxes, probably in their late teens, were horsing around up there, playfully pushing each other and grabbing at each other's food. My husband and I stayed as far away on the opposite side of the bridge as possible as we passed them -- to no avail, when one boy suddenly gave the other such a mighty shove that he lost his balance and careened backwards all the way across the bridge and into me so hard that I literally went airborne -- then *splat* on the concrete.
Fortunately, I had just enough presence of mind to keep my head up and twist to the side in the air. I didn't hit my head and I seem to have better bones than a lot of 62-year-old women, because nothing broke. Nothing worse than some interesting bruises -- and a wrenched right shoulder. Figured I'd better go easy on it for a week or so to let it heal instead of making it worse. Well, the day after I started playing again, I came down with a mother of a summer cold, the kind that makes playing a wind instrument impossble for a few days. Rats -- I haven't caught a cold in *years.* Great timing. Grumble, grumble....
Lelia
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Author: Gobboboy
Date: 2010-08-18 18:58
I'd love to. - play you for a box of Reeds? whats your handicap?
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Author: golfnclarinet
Date: 2010-08-18 20:24
+10 at local golf course but could be +20 or +30 at Old Course, St Andrews.
Good idea. One hole for one reed. I might need two boxes of Vandoren.
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