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Re: Middle joint wobbles

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-11-03 14:49

The majority of wooden and moulded plastic B&H clarinets have notoriously sloppy fitting tenons, so they do benefit by having tenon corks being left thick and flat from the bevelled leading edge onwards, leaving the edge by the tenon shoulder square to make up for the poor fit between the tenon rings and the socket.

In the early to mid '60s they used the same width cutter on all the tenons to cut the cork slot, so the middle tenon was often left without an upper tenon ring so the middle tenon would wobble regardless how well the tenon cork was fitted. The only remedy here is to make new tenon rings that actually engage in the socket and have a narrower width tenon cork to eliminate the wobble.

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

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