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Problem with water

Author: mankan
Date: 2004-11-09 19:52

Hello

I´m a swedish amateur clarinetist and have been
reading with interest the various subjects on this site.
Now I have really a problem. Me and some orchestra-friends are doing the
Beethoven septet on friday night. We rehearsed today and I´ve got problem with water coming up from the hole under the pad to the trill-key on right hand, (the Eb/Bb-key).
It´s really troubling me. Some suggestions would be useful. Shall I oil my
instrument? (Its an old Buffet S1 from early seventies that sounds really
great, though some people say that the S1 was loaded with problems?)

Please give me some advice on this

mankan

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Re: Problem with water

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-11-09 20:14

See http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/WaterInTheHoles.html for a number of good ideas.

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Re: Problem with water

Author: Snowy
Date: 2004-11-09 23:23

May I suggest that, before doing all the things suggested in Mark's link, you have a good look at the pad.

I very recently had an ongoing problem of water collecting under the lower joint D# key. It eventually turned out to be that the particular pad was surreptitiously shipping water. Pad replaced. problem gone.

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