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Advice sought from the clarinet community

Author: Cass Tech
Date: 2008-01-15 16:44

My dilemma: I have a clarinet being overhauled, and the repairman promised that it would be ready LAST November. Two weeks ago he said he'd finally located and received the parts (it's a early sixties R-13), and it would be ready LAST week. I've left messages on his answering machine, but have not yet gotten a call from him. Add to this that I'm currently practicing the Neilsen (which I last studied 40 years ago), and the clarinet I'm using hasn't been serviced in over 10 years, so that the keys are spectacularly unresponsive (its a clickety-clack monster to practice on.) As a result, instead of enjoying my daily practice sessions, they've become a battle with my instrument, a war against Neilsen.
I'm a law librarian and can imagine the nightmare that litigants go through (e.g. the complete waste of time and money, the anxiety, etc.).But I'm tempted to threaten this repairmen that if I don't get my instrument back this week, I'm going to put the matter in the hands of an attorney. It's the last thing I want to do, but what do you of the clarinet community think?
Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)

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