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 Re: Cracked clarinet - repair or replace?
Author: Gordon (NZ) 
Date:   2006-03-02 12:05

Cracks do not necessarily terminate when they reach a tone hole.

I encountered a top clarinet from a top manufacturer, with a narrow crack that went past 2 or 3 tone holes, in the throat area where there is insufficient room to safely insert stabilising pins.

Because the crack was relatively shallow, any pins inserted elsewhere would probably have been deeper than the crack, and would therefore have done little stabilisation.

This was a crack that opened and closed quite readily.

When the crack opened across a tone hole, the air leaked.

I decided I could not guarantee the reliability of any filling job, and I am rather sceptical about the ability of glue to actually bond well to a oiled timber surface to hold the sides of a crack stable. I also felt that any such work may void a manufacturer warranty. So the instrument was sent back to manufacturer.

manufacturer repaired it immaculately, but a few months of subsequent playing demonstrated that the 'repair' was cosmetic only, and the same crack opened.

Therefore, I consider that if a crack appears across tone holes in this area of a supposedly high quality clarinet, then the joint should be replaced, or money refunded. That would seem to be the legal obligation under consumer rights law in my country.
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