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Re: Intermediate Yamahas

Author: shmuelyosef
Date: 2018-12-14 02:43

Chris
Just curious, as I often struggle with making bending adjustments to RH pinky keys.

I have always tried to just "muscle it" with my bare hands or with slim duckbill pliers padded with leather. I take the keys off, wrap or fixture the keyrods to protect them it a vise and then muscle the key sideways. On Buffet and Selmer horns it is not too strenuous, but I find the keys on Leblanc (particularly the 2nd generation with the sculpted jump keys) and the keys on Yamaha are particularly hard to bend (a good thing when these are in middle school hands).

I have been thinking about what type of tool I could fashion that would be better than the duckbill pliers...curious how you do it, particularly on the student/intermediate Yamahas that as you observed, are generously spaced from the ring keys.

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