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 Re: What is the best way to adjust needle spring tension
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2019-06-27 11:02

If you want the bridge key more compliant when using firm pads, you can use a soft material on the bridge key linkage such as Ultrasuede or felt as that will have some give in it as well as also keeping mechanical noise down.

That way you still have some rotational leeway when the joints are assembled and don't have to line up to within fractions of a degree to each other and the long Bb is in regulation compared to using materials with hardly any give everywhere.

In a perfect textbook world, that would be fine, but you still have to take into account things aren't textbook perfect as there are the properties of all the materials to take into account which diagrams don't show. They will show how things work in relation to each other, but not how the materials themselves behave when it comes to properties like torsion and compression.

I hardly use natural cork for the keywork and linkages on clarinets except for the throat A stopper cork. I use rubco mainly closed-standing keys and linkages and Ultrasuede and felt for open standing keys and the crow's foot to keep mechanical noise to a minimum.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

The opinions I express are my own.

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