Author: Ken Lagace
Date: 2019-06-01 23:43
If you have no-one to help, breaking things will be the 1st mistakes. Reeds will break easily, and when assembling the two center sections they have to be put together properly. There is a linkage between them and improper assembly will bent one of the linkages, although the student clarinets are made pretty strong. The proper way is to put your right knuckles over the long rod on the longer piece and the left hand fingers over the rings on the shorter piece. The right hand prevents raising the lower connection lever and the left hand raises the upper lever so they won't bind. Then line them up so they interact together.
Also be careful of the mouthpiece. Any dings on the rail, the curved flat part around the rectangular hole, will cause squeaks, or may not let the reed vibrate properly at all.
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