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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2002-07-02 14:11
I would like to practice and learn how to dissemble and clean my clarinet by myself (don't worry, I'll do it on my old plastic one!). Does anyone know of a good resource on the internet with explaination and good drawings? Many thanks.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2002-07-02 15:00
Stephane,
No drawings that I recall but if you look on this site under equipment you will find descriptions on how to do much of the work (replace cork, seat pads, etc.). Also if you search the clarinet archives for "Fobes" without the quotes, you will find many helpful tips from Clark.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: jbutler
Date: 2002-07-02 15:34
Stephane,
Go to the Ferree's link in the <I>Retail</I> section of this site and contact them about getting an assembly board. This could be helpful for the "first timers". It has little holes to put rods and pivots on a board with a schematic of a clarinet. That way you can place all the parts in the proper place for assembly. Just don't accidentally knock the board over while you are working on the clarinet. The clarinet board is part number <b>J90</b> and will cost about <b>$7.50</b> plus shipping. You may also want to work on one joint at a time until you become more familiar with the clarinet. I would also suggest you get a good screwdriver<b>F67</b>@<b>$8.80</b>. Cheap ones can ruin the slots on the rods and pivots. Also, it would probably be good to get a spring hook for placing the springs back on keys if necessary <b>F2</b>@<b>$14.00</b>.
jbutler
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-07-02 20:29
Excellent advice above. I'd like to add that I find it helps to have a clean workspace... bench, table - whatever, and I like to spread a clean (preferably, white), cloth on the work surface. Those flighty little parts are a lot easier to find when they do fall and, on a soft clean surface they tend not to bounce quite so far.
- ron b -
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-07-03 01:52
I cannot even program my VCR let alone take apart a clarinet - the wonders of those with "the knack" never CEASE to amaze me.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-07-03 16:58
Small crochet hooks are cheaper. Also, I have found that an assortment of dental "picks" helps...they come quite cheap now in your local hardware store. I am still an apprentice(non-pro) and prefer to do individual keys or pairs of keys at a time.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-07-03 20:06
...
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -tear up the planks! here, here! ...
E. A. Poe
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Author: Stéphane
Date: 2002-07-03 21:22
many thanks to all of you for the good info. Will let you know if I am a mutant (everyone knows that only a mutant can disassemble and re-assemble a clarinet in no time, as well as unfold and fold back a road map in 30 sec.)
Stephane
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2002-07-03 22:22
One last tip...
Get a single index card.
Punch holes in the card with a round toothpick.
Use the resulting holes to hold any rods you remove.
(You will remember to label them, won't you?)
Turn back now, before it is too late.
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Author: E. Michael Blake
Date: 2002-07-04 01:17
In case anyone missed it, Mark C. was pointing out that "dissemble" doesn't mean "disassemble." To dissemble means to conceal or avoid the truth, so I hope those of you who gave guidance on clarinet disassembly weren't dissembling. I can't offer a usage of "disassemble" quite as lofty as Mark C.'s invocation of Poe, but here's a bit of Bobby Darin's version of "Clementine", which scans the word nicely: "The old bridge trembled/And disassembled/So I lost/Chubby Clementine".
I took a clarinet apart once, and I was even able to get it back together, looking about the same, with no pieces left over. I advise not only labelling the parts, but keeping a log of the order in which things were removed, so a repetition in reverse order will get everything back without posts becoming inaccessible.
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2002-07-04 11:30
After the first few hundred they all start to look alike. Start slowly and dont let your father touch it!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-07-04 14:14
I prefer "taking apart", "overhauling", etc. We WAGS love word games, like "playing the malady instead of the harmonica". Don
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Author: RogerD
Date: 2002-07-05 12:41
Be careful
I disassembled and cleaned my R-13 once. There was a lot of dirt in it. The problem was there were little rubber "cones"---like what would fit on the end of a finger, but much samller---on the end of the left hand B, C and C# keys---where they connect into the mechanism at the bottom. They were really covered in gunk. I found one by accident after I had lost the others in dirt and was too ignorant to know what they were.
The result was a loose mechanism. I am told that cigarette paper can be a temporary substitute.
The bottom line---be careful
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