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Life in these times

Author: Steven Ocone
Date: 2020-05-01 18:01

I'm glad to have a a workshop outside of the home. That will change if I can't get back to making money to pay the overhead. Meanwhile I force myself to go in and work a few hours every week day. Mostly picking old instruments off the floor and fixing them up - some of them are old professional clarinets. I pray that they actually play OK after they're done.

Today I work on a Leblanc low Eb bass clarinet. The top and the bottom are from different clarinets and the neck is a Chinese neck that was shortened. The top has a crack through a tone hole which gets a bushing today. The instrument was so bad that a customer just gave it to me.

I overhauled an old Centered Tone clarinet before I realized it had a Buffet barrel - and the barrel was under 60mm! Now it has a Bundy barrel.

Normally, the time I put into these instruments would exceed the value. Now I'm cleaning up the shop - or maybe avoiding it by working on these old beasts.

Steve Ocone

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Re: Life in these times

Author: ruben
Date: 2020-05-02 12:46

Dear Steven: good luck with your work and stick with it. We need people that do the work you do. Some of your experimentation with old clunkers is bound to produce some really great results.

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com

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