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is this clarinet faulty

Author: Runhammar
Date: 2021-01-19 02:58

Hi everyone

I just bought an inexpensive clarinet second hand - an SML Dixie, unknown age. Wood.
It seems like an ok instrument, but one thing is quite strange: when I play a low G (concert f) it invariably comes out very pitched, closer to G sharp than to G. It is like a guitar with a string out of tune.
This i find strange. I know pitch vary on a clarinet and you have to work with it when playing to get the tonality, but one that is so completely and consistantly off by close to a half step? I do not see any way that the instrument physically could have thrown one note off, especially as it is one played with all holes covered.
I am now indecisive whether I should ask for a refund or if the problem can be solved. I would prefer if it could, because the instrument is quite nice and I only paid the equivalent of 50 dollars. Still, if it cant be played...

Looking forward to be enlightened

/Per Runhanmmar
Stockholm/Sweden

Per Runhammar

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