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Author: Neal Raskin
Date: 2008-03-13 00:28
ever get that terrible feeling? that feeling of anguish and remorse?
more specifically the feeling you get when you see a crack in your clarinet... ...
sad day... :'(
How does Buffet handle claims that are within the warranty? do they replace the horn? do they have you send the horn out to get repaired? I don't want to wait til tomorrow to find out. Thats why I am asking you all!!
Maybe, if it isn't too painful... we could share stories of terrible things that have happened to our clarinets...
neal
my story is a separate occasion from this one. My somewhat new horn cracked during the Entre' act of a musical that i was playing in the pit...
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Author: chipper
Date: 2008-03-13 14:36
My first clarinet was a plastic Vito. I left it standing on the bell near the patio door after a practice one cold winter night. Early the next morning I heard an oops and a crack. My wife had knocked it over and the cold brittle plastic broke into two right through the hole under the break key. So I stoped at my friendly neighborhood hardware store that day and picked up a glue kit for that type of plastic, including the cleaner. I very carefully followed the instructions and had my horn back that very evening. Sometimes the less one knows, the happier one is.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-03-13 18:10
I believe in most cases, they try to fix it by pinning or gluing it. Bring it back to where you bought it; if they have a good repairman they will probably do it. If not ask them who to send it to. If it’s very bad they should send it back to Buffet. In some cases Buffet will give you a new upper joint which is some cases is good and some case not so good because it won’t be the same clarinet, for better or for worse. Good luck with it. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457
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Author: ASBassCl1
Date: 2008-03-14 22:09
A few months ago I ordered two new clarinets from different places to try out and see which I liked best, and one had the barrel and bell get stuck upon first putting it together. I even cork greased it! The barrel was stuck too far out so it wasn't even worth trying to play because the throat tones were so flat. So I had to bubble wrap it and send it back as was.
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Author: Gary Foss
Date: 2008-03-15 00:22
Last February I was to play the last movement of the Mozart Concerto in a per service Orchestra. The day before the concert was a double call plus home time warm-up, about 7 hours playing. So I had planned on going easy concert day and didn't open the case until 2 hours before the show and sadly overnight a gaping crack from the g# up to the tenon had appeared. I was surprised as I had had this horn over 10 years and bought it used. Total panic ensued, do I play on it anyway? My backup A clarinet was nowhere near performance ready. I lucked out that I had a student who had purchased a set of Mark Nuccios old horns and was able to use his A. I was able to get a little used to it playing Siefried Idyll before going out front, but telling the audience my story broke the tension and it went very well. It took me 6 months but I now have a new set of clarinets that I had needed for years.
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Author: James
Date: 2008-03-18 03:12
I just found a long, thin crack in my Buffet R-13 Prestige. I had some water in the tone hole for the 2nd trill key (for F#), and when I went to blow it out I found it. At first I thought it was just part of the wood grain but upon further inspection I discovered that it was indeed a crack. It's entirely fixable, but I still almost cried.
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2008-03-18 05:55
.... and your to blame baby you give love.... a bad name"
sorry couldn't resist.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-03-18 10:15
I'm glad you got in there first with that one!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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