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 Re: What is the best way to adjust needle spring tension
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2019-06-21 19:58

That one is tricky because you can easily lose the tension you just put into into it, getting the key back into position.


Firstly I WOULD bend fairly close to the post for the correct 'feel.' You may wind up putting it in and taking it out several times to get that right (while you have keys off, look at how the others down there are bent, that's usually a good start).


Then there is the whole, "How Tense Should it Be?" That key is tricky on this front. Ideally you want the stack of four pinky keys of similar feel BUT you want the "Ab/Eb" key to be perhaps just a little more than ideal. The reason is that particular key can achieve a bit of "blow openness" during play (believe it or not) that decreases resonance in a significant way.


Once you have just the right balance, you get it in by wiggling the key "closer than when on the rod" and ever so slightly pulling the spring over the notch under the key with a 1.4mm crochet hook....or equivalent. THEN slide the rod into place. That move is necessary for many clarinets.




...............Paul Aviles
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