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Re: My eflat clarinet

Author: ron b
Date: 2004-05-24 16:59

This may be of interest to no one in particular but, since we're talking about eefers I'd like to share this with... anyone who can't get away from me.

I acquired a L.P. Albert eefer recently

Poor little guy was Totally covered with a thick coat of green paint. Must've been sprayed on because the bore was almost free of paint (just a little into the bore above and beyond the bell tenon - whew...) but from an outward appearance it looked like it had been dipped in a vat of the stuff. With lots of GoofOff and much bristle brushing I got 98.7% of the paint removed. The rest will have to be carefully scraped away. The paint flaked off the keys with very little effort. All the screws and springs are okay and the wood which is a deep brown color, while quite 'dry' as you might imagine, is crack free. It bears Carl Fischer's name so it's anyone's guess where it came from. The posts' holes go into the bore... not a good thing, but probably cause no significant problems.

Somewhere along the course of it life its mouthpiece and barrel took a different course. No biggie; I found a used mpc and am making a barrel out of delrin. I hope to spend some spare time restoring it over the next couple or three weeks and have it happily tootin' again.

I thought of you and your C horn, Kat, when I read your post and wondered if you ever did anything further about getting that one out of suspended animation.

Regards to all,

- r [cool]