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Author: Mrdi
Date: 2018-10-18 04:14
Anyone have experience with a spike coming out of the pad on a register key?
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Author: Ed
Date: 2018-10-18 05:38
I believe Avrahm Galper also had marketed something like this years ago.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2018-10-18 06:30
Galper’s adjustment is a register tube that partially extends further out of the clarinet. The register key is adjusted to accommodate the extension. I don’t believe that the Galper mechanism included a Hasty pad.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2018-10-18 06:34
I once asked a repairman what to do about a fuzzy 3rd line Bb and he said put the small pointy end of a toothpick in the pad, so I did and it is still fuzzy.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-10-18 07:04
I think it is supposed to help clear up the "grunt" that some experience with the first ledger above the staff "A" and "Bb." The current Uebel Superiors (and perhaps others in the line) have a "coned" register pad to do this.
............Paul Aviles
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Author: Ed
Date: 2018-10-18 15:52
Thanks for that info. I know that someone had a product like this, but I cannot recall who that was.
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Author: Steven Ocone
Date: 2018-10-18 16:28
It is sometimes installed to make the clarion A speak without an undertone (or "grunt"). It will not improve the clarity of the middle B - it may make it worse.
Steve Ocone
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2018-10-18 18:13
There was some discussion about this on here several years ago. As a result I experimented to see if I could eliminate a "grunt" I was getting with certain notes in the clarion register. For me the results were inconclusive, but I did find that making the register key pad from cork and giving it a cone shape so that it only just covered the pip partially solved the grunt problem. The rest of the problem was due to a combination of mouthpiece, reed and barrel choices. Eventually I came up with a combination that removed what was left of the grunt.
Tony F.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2018-10-18 21:47
Ah, yes Tony, a number of repair people do this to a cork pad for the register. I refer to an actual protuberance on the surface of the Uebel pad that sticks INTO the top of the register tube (looks like a teepee on the surface of the pad as opposed to the "spike" that I have seen from others).
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2018-10-19 01:03
Hi Paul,
That's right. The use of a protruberance on the register key was the subject of the discussion. I tried it using various lengths and diameter of spike, but as I said my results were inconclusive.
Tony F.
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