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Re: Pitfalls of out-of-town instrument repair

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-10-31 21:01

The problem here is you took your clarinet to someone else, thereby invalidating the warranty the original repairer gave you. Chances are he'd have changed the pads to whatever type you wanted if you asked him to under his warranty. I make it clear that my warranty on my work is invalidated if someone else does any work within the warranty period and I have to put that right.

A while back I had a call from a customer about a clarinet which I had completely overhauled and he had a leak on the side Bb pad. Now I made sure the top joint was completely airtight before I returned it to him, but in the week that followed he had 'levelled' the side Bb pad as it wasn't sitting level in the pad cup like the others were (but it was seating perfectly onto its tonehole which is the main thing). The pad cup wasn't parallel with the tonehole and was never ever likely to be (short of remaking the key), so the pad was never going to be straight in it anyway. But that's only a cosmetic problem due to the way the key was made and the side Bb pad cup is near impossible to align due to how it's soldered onto the side Bb key. I replaced the pad but didn't charge him for that even though I really should have done.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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