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What is wrong with my clarinet?

Author: iplaytheclarinet
Date: 2018-08-17 03:29

I'm a high school student. I've had my clarinet for 4 years, and I've had absolutely no problems with it. I'm pretty sure it's a plastic Bundy student clarinet.

Last week at marching band practice, I had my clarinet set up on the ground and someone accidentally kind of kicked it. No big deal. However, when i tried to play it again it did not play right. Notes played on the upper body of my clarinet will barely come out. I have to strain myself to get something out, and that something is usually a squeak. Notes played on the lower body of my clarinet sometimes play like I'm holding down the register key, even when I'm not.

The weird part is my clarinet will play correctly for like 5 minutes or so, but then 5 minutes later it will go back to having problems. It's a cycle basically.

Initially, I thought that my mouthpiece was cracked on the inside from when the person kicked it. I bought a new mouthpiece, but my clarinet is still doing the same thing. I had my band director and the first chair clarinet player check my clarinet out, but they both said that they couldn't find anything wrong with it.

Do any of you know what's wrong with it and how I can potentially fix it? Or should I just take it in to be repaired? If you guys need more details about my problem I can tell you.

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