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RE: Take risk?

Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-22 22:55

William wrote:
>
> When you switch to a different (new) instrument, the
> "breaking in" period is really, very much, you getting used to
> accoustical properties of the "new" instrument and learning how
> to cope with those "certain" notes and resistance tendencies
> of register changes, etc, etc. There is also the problem of
> breaking in the key mechanizms so that they are up to speed and
> not stiff, as most new clarinets are. If it were me, for the
> above reasons, I would not want to perform in a solo situation
> on a clarinet that I was unfamiliar with. A wind ensemble
> situation I could accept, but not a solo. My advice is to have
> your cracked clarinet repaired--pinned or glued, whichever is
> deemed best by your repairperson--and then, after your required
> performances, make the decision wheither to purchase new or
> not. Good clarineting!!!!!!!!!

If the repairman fixes the crack in only two weeks, it may not be a good repair. The horn needs to sit a while so the the crack can "relax" as much as possible and close down. This may take several weeks.

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