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Clarion b issue

Author: Zeno_42
Date: 2024-05-21 16:41

So I’ve been an amateur clarinetist for roughly 40 years - playing with community bands and such. My current instrument is a Buffet R13 that I bought sometime in the 90s. The past few years I’ve been living somewhere with limited access to repair techs, so I took it in for tuneup/repairs on a visit back to the US last August. I did not have time to adequately test it in the shop before catching my flight back. Unfortunately I quickly discovered after I returned home that I would randomly fail to get sound on clarion B.

I’ve had it in to other repair shops several times since then - and they’ve greatly improved the issue - but it still just randomly fails to produce sound on clarion b. I can go for weeks with no issue, and then suddenly have it happen for an entire night, and then the problem just as mysteriously disappears again.

It’s rather maddening as I cannot consistently reproduce the problem, and when it does rear its head I cannot find a consistent way to work around it. At this point I can’t tell how much of the remaining issue may be the instrument and how much is me. I’ve tried a loaner clarinet during periods when I’ve shipped it off for repairs, and while the problem is abated it still occasionally crops up even then.

So I feel like there may still be a residual issue with my instrument, but part of it is something about the way I am playing. I never remember having this sort of problem before, so I’m struggling to sort it out.

Andy ideas or suggestions?

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