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Re: stuffy B

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-02-18 21:17

Accurate diagnosis of the specific problem is a vital first step. Use a feeler to ascertain exactly WHERE the pad is closing and where it is not. Then work out why. Then deal with it. If that is not your 'thing', then get a GOOD technician to do it. It is very easy to really mess up this area of a bass clarinet, and installing a thicker pad would almost certainly do that.

It could be as David has said - and very difficult to explain because each case is individual, relating to the flexing of the metal in the particular linkages - or could be sloppy pivots, or poor alignment of the pad with the tone hole, as I have described in another thread, "Note Delay".

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=208990&t=208990

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