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Re: RINGLESS SOCKETS WILL CRACK. FACT!

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2017-03-30 17:28

I'm an amateur and all of my clarinets are oldies with metal rings, but fwiw -- at flea markets and yard sales, by far the most common damage I see on wooden clarinets of all ages is a cracked barrel.

This is anecdotal evidence, not statistical proof of anything, but at yard sales, most of the owners of these damaged instruments have told me that while taking a clarinet apart or putting it together, they'd dropped the barrel on a hard floor in a classroom or on concrete when playing outdoors. Barrel droppage seems to be a very common accident. I've heard enough such remarks to give me the impression that barrel cracks in these older instruments are less likely to have happened spontaneously (due to manufacturing whoopsies such as bad combinations of materials or parts that fit badly) and more likely to have happened by accident.

Lelia
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