Author: crazy karlos
Date: 2009-09-27 17:36
Really don't want to get in a big debate here.
But I wonder if anyone on this list can honestly say, that they take their lives in their hands every time they go to their repairman?
My guy, Paul Fix, has been in the same spot in at the bottom of Bree St in Johannesburg for at least the last 25 years, when he first helped me fix a saxophone that was falling to pieces. The area where he lives and works has now decayed to the point where he specifically gets a time of arrival for me, so that he can send a bodyguard downstairs to make sure I get into the building OK (all the lights are out, it's like entering a cave).
I tried another repairman at a shop that the orchestral musicians use -- no names, but this guy cannot deal with a bass clarinet, he messed it up good and proper twice, so I will only go to Paul.
If any of you ever end up performing in Johannesburg (which has heard some very fine clarinetists) and need a good repairman at short notice, Paul Fix is up there with the best in the world, I'm sure of that -- but it's a nightmare to get to him, I only do it in absolute emergencies. The corner his building is on is a hijack hot spot, and people die on those pavements every week, shot, stabbed, struck with blunt objects. I am no shrinking violet, I walk everywhere in Jo'burg, but that corner gives me the absolute shakes, especially when I am carrying an instrument case.
So I cannot really begin to tell you how much I appreciate Chris's posts, because for the first time I've had a sense that I can really learn to make my own running repairs. There is so much good advice on this board, but his contributions in particular form a resource for all time on clarinet repair, especially for those of us who are out here in the sticks.
I have collected hundreds of scientific papers from around the world on microwaves and health, including the original founding papers from the Russians in the 1960s on which they based their diagnosis of "microwave sickness". Chronic fatigue is on *every* list of illnesses around masts. I have collected every single study on general health around masts done anywhere in the world -- *every single study* of general health around masts shows problems, including fatigue.
We have helped literally dozens of people with chronic fatigue get their health back, just by looking at their environment and acting on that. If I were around, I could check Chris's place in 15 minutes and see if there is a problem. Incidentally, I lectured university physics for many years, and spent at least a decade teaching medical students how to do specific absorption rate measurements with nuclear radiation. I specialised in electromagnetics and radio (been a licensed radio ham since 1975, set up and operating many radio stations) so I do know exactly what these measurements involve, and I am no techophobe. I work with a person who is an expert on health, and together we have solved many health problems which doctors here had been unable to cure.
You *cannot* see what is going on without measuring. I nearly moved into an apartment that seemed far away from any masts or pylons. When we measured, there was colossal power line radiation from buried cables.
There's a basic principle in medicine, a kind of "zeroth law" of being a doctor: DO NO HARM.
What I am suggesting here is perfectly harmless, it would take a few minutes to check. If there's no problem with electromagnetic fields, well, then *no harm* has been done, and you can cross it off the list of possible causes.
I would ask any practising medical doctor on this list or anywhere: you take ALL the drugs you prescribe in a day; list ALL their known side effects; and then put your hand on your heart, and say "I know for a fact I did no harm today." I shouldn't have mentioned the cases of leukaemia, yes of course I have no proof -- the people moved, the disease went into remission, we saw the doctors' letters, of course it may all be a coincidence. I've just seen it too often, that's all. But leukaemia is the main indicated condition of electromagnetic pollution, even the WHO rates power line radiation as a "possible environmental carcinogen" with childhood leukaemia particularly indicated.
As for being "on topic": without the contribution of people with knowledge and expertise, there is no "topic", there is no "thread", there is no board at all. Anything that might help Chris or anyone on this list suffering from the terrible phenomenon of chronic fatigue or related ailments, can only benefit all of us.
Sorry to involve you in this, Chris, but I would really like you to know how much I appreciate your contributions here. I really wish you all the best.
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