Author: shmuelyosef
Date: 2019-03-02 23:59
I tend to agree with Nitai, that the tenon problem is generic to wood clarinets, and they all have instability. As an aside, I also build wood furniture in my shop, and I have observed that over the last 50 years, the wood used for clarinets (similar to furniture) has increasingly had wider spaced annual rings with more variability in spacing and parallel. This suggests that younger trees are being harvested. Such wood is inherently more unstable than the outer diameters of old growth harvest (like my 60-70 year old Selmers). The Greenline is only the beginning of a transition to engineered materials, which will most likely emerge (eventually) as far superior once the appropriate materials are engineered and adopted for high performance clarinets.
I recently scored a NOS Yamaha Custom clarinet for my own use that was probably not sold because it had a joint that could not be assembled with a tenon that was (in one dimension) larger than the socket (which was still round). It was an easy fix and with new pads/etc is a wonderful instrument.
Just fyi, for many sanding jobs, I find it useful to back wet-dry paper with packing tape (the clear 2" wide 3M material) and then use a cheap Fiskars paper-cutter to slice precision strips for various demanding sanding jobs, like tenon adjustment and tenon corks.
It is too bad that Buffet quality control continues to be an issue; Yamahas continue to improve, and Selmer is good but not great (from what I have seen). The situation is much worse in the saxophone world, where as far as I can tell, Yamaha and Yanagisawa (by far the best) are the only vendors who at least try to provide a horn that plays out of the box.
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