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 Re: What Training is Required to be Considered a Professional Clarinet Repairer?
Author: Cuisleannach 
Date:   2006-08-21 05:45

One of the nice things about apprenticing is that you are prevented from making a lot of stupid mistakes from inexperience.

One of the bad things about apprenticing is that you are prevented from making a lot of stupid mistakes from inexperience.

It doesn't take too many times of disassembling and re-assembling the keys of an instrument to teach you that order does matter, or that pads will seat poorly if they're not seated properly. You do learn a lot of tricks of the trade (such as how to use leak lights and pad slicks, how to properly swedge keys), but you'll also be doing a lot of scut work (such as my least favorite, key buffing).

A big advantage to an apprenticeship is that you will have the opportunity to work on a relatively large number of instruments that you might not achieve by teaching yourself. You also have a professional there (hopefully) who can catch your mistakes before they go back in the case and out the door with a paying customer. You also have the opportuinty to learn to fix a lot of different instruments, if that's you're goal. Learning to solder, re-lacquer, and pull dents out of brass instruments (including saxes) is somewhat easy if learned under an expert but very difficult to learn on your own, and a lot of tools are needed for that kind of work. You may never get the chance to pull all the keys off and repad a bassoon or a bari sax unless you work in a shop.

There are plusses and minuses to both approaches. My personal advice is that learning on your own is usually fine if you only want to learn on one instrument (although after some time spent doing it yourself it might be very productive to work with an expert to see how he or she solves problems). For working on more than one instrument (or especially more than one class of instrument) I'd probably recommend an apprenticeship.

For the record, I served an apprenticeship.

-Randy
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