Author: Kalashnikirby
Date: 2018-01-12 11:25
donald wrote:
"I does NOT however look to me like "acid saliva" caused the bore problem. Either it wasn't finished properly at manufacture, or oiling the bore caused the wood to "rise" (I don't know the official term for this- Bassoon players talk about it though... the oiling causes micro "burrs" to lift up from the polished surface of the wood)."
I'd have considered that a manufacturing problem too, in the first place - which is why I didn't mention it to the seller when I visited him - but if I look closely, right behind the register vent tube, the wood is undamaged, so there's a fine strip which, I suppose, the salive couldn't reach.
Apart from that, I felt I had to oil the horn because the bore was already getting white. Only applied a relatively small amount of almond oil, so the horn would get a bit of humidity again.
There's no saying for sure that his saliva was actually acidic and we'll never find out, but even older bores I've seen never showed this level of "erosion".
BTW, the horn was bought 2 weeks ago ago.
clarnibass wrote
"I just had a few professional clarinets of the same model here, all made in the last couple of years, and they varied significantly. Only one had several loose posts. One had terrible intonation on some of the throat notes (the others didn't). One had a very bad mechanical problem on more than a few keys, not far from issues normally found on cheap student clarinets."
What a shame, because the one I tried in store was great. Also, this one, despite all it's flaws, still beats my RC - the intonation problem was where I had to draw a line, seeing the other issues the horn had.
Guess I'll end up buying a new Leitner + Kraus or something similar when I'm done studying.
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