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Re: "Do It Yourself" Bass Clarinet Maintenance

Author: Don Berger
Date: 2003-05-12 14:39

Bob, My "best" friendly repairmen acquaintances, are, like Gordon NZ, truly mechanical engineers in their ability to ferret-out problems in the more-complicated PLATEAU keywork the bass cl presents, and horn-playing sleuths for finding/solving problems with the sounds. With such requirements, only a very few of our population can qualify. I believe had I taken training from experts, I might have joined that elite group, a bit late now!! While I have had years of watching the pros work and learned SOME things from my self-taught experiences, I keep reminding myself of my limitations in analysis-repair-tuning, and seek pro help, 45 miles away, on both my own horns and those from others seeking my advice. Re: book-repair manual helps, most of our " good books" [Rendall, p.e.] have at least some keying description, Willaman has several [older] chapters on repairs, and both Selmer and Leblanc have put out simple-repair manuals, pads and corks mainly, little on adjustments for register keying and and the long L F keys, the major problems!! I'm sure wordy!, luck, Don

Thanx, Mark, Don

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