Author: crnichols
Date: 2006-08-19 17:49
The board sponsors are great, all of them get fantastic reviews from the various posters on the board. Click on Services in the column on the right side. I think John Butler has a detailed price list, and his prices are very very reasonable. Also, David Spiegelthal gets very high recommendations from posters, but he doesn't advertise. I've heard his prices are very reasonable. I've also heard that those too people are very fast, even working through the mail. Since you sound like you're going to have to ship it somewhere, I wouldn't limit yourself to the Michigan area. The last significant work I had done was by Jochen Seggelke in Bamberg, Germany, and it is consummate artistry. That would probably take too long for you though, and the exchange rate is not in your favor. If you can get leather pads installed on the lower joint and cork on the upper joint, I would highly recommend it though. It's the best compromise I've found in terms of noise and durability. The only trouble with cork is that it's of such variable quality. You want to get cork that is virtually poreless if possible. Guy Chadash in NYC has an amazingly high quality cork that he uses for pads. I don't know here he gets it, but it's so perfect it doesn't even look like cork.
Good Luck!
Christopher Nichols, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
University of Delaware
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