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 What is the best way to adjust needle spring tension
Author: m1964 
Date:   2019-06-21 18:23

Hi,
This is a question for the professional repair technicians.
1. I was fine-tuning my plastic Artley and needed to make right pinky G#/Eb stiffer. The needle springs on that clarinet are not made of blue steel and, on that key, it seemed to be somewhat thicker but less stiff than if it was blue steel spring.

What is a better way to bend the spring: right at the post or more towards the middle?

2. I recently bought a new Buffet and some keys felt much stiffer than on my 20 y. old R13, esp. the rt. pinky F#/C# key.
I removed everything to get access to that key, removed the key and at first thought I broke the spring off because there was no spring attached to the post.

Then I realized that the spring was attached to the key itself and not to the post (I was told later it is Buffet's design on all pro instruments).

I tried to make the tension lighter and ended up with somewhat "slowly" moving key.
Then I took the instrument to a tech who said it is sometimes difficult to get that particular key moving "right" and, if he cannot adjust the spring to get the right movement, he would drill a hole in the post and attach the spring to the post.
Anyway he did adjust it and it is definitely better than it was after my adjustment, but it still does not move as well/quickly/easy as the E/B key.
On my old r13 and my A clarinet (also buffet) this key (F#/C#) seems to move better.
Is it possible to make this key to move as good as the other three?
I do realize that other keys act in the opposite direction.

Thanks a lot
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