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Problem with throat tones on A clarinet

Author: bufclar
Date: 2007-07-26 19:44

Hi All,
I have a question regarding my R13 A clarinet. It's just a little over a year old and about a month ago the throat tones have gone very flat. I can't figure out what would make this happen? I have taken it to my tech and we did some things to it like checking for leaks, changing some pad heigths but the problem still remains. I checked for cracks in the tone holes, the register tube was removed and cleaned and shortened (for some clarion issues) and all the tone holes have been cleaned.

The tone quality has become very hollow sounding from notes g through bflat and I have to lip them up quite a bit to keep them in tune where as a month or two ago I could put down some fingers on these notes to give them a little more depth.

My tech is one of the top people in Chicago so I don't think I need to go to someone else but after the recent work he did, the problem is slightly better but still an obvious problem. Any suggestions or ideas about what this could be?

Post Edited (2007-07-26 19:44)

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