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Author: Eb
Date: 2001-09-22 17:18
My daughters clarinet needs to be terribly repaded. Well, most of its because of marching band and the rain. I need to know what all to get put on the clarinet so that if it rains again on the field, or whatever, it won't hurt it. Any suggestion much appreciated.
~Eb~
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Author: GBK
Date: 2001-09-22 17:44
Much of this was covered in:
http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=53673&t=53673
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Author: ron b
Date: 2001-09-22 18:17
Eb -
Yikes!
Brass instruments and plastic percussion heads will do so-so in stormy weather but what kind of band director would put reed instruments out in the rain? Very poor judgement in my opinion :[ There are pads that will hold up in the rain but they're expensive, way above and beyond routine maintenance. I suggest you make an arrangement with the school to pay for 'weatherizing' ALL the reed instruments :]
Maybe then, there'll be some changes made... (i know... sit down rb) :
- ron b -
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2001-09-22 22:49
These directors seem to be as ignornt as ducks. Exposing any clarinet with standard pads to rain is equivalent to giving a car an underwater bath. They wouldn't expect violins to be played in the rain an nor should they expect clarinets to.
The pads are wrecked. Replacement standard pads will agin get wrecked. Totally waterproof pads are inappropriate for many instruments unless there is a very high standsard of manufacture (key cup alignment, level tone holes, precision in pivots, etc). This is frequently NOT the case with plastic instruments. Plastic student instruments NEVER come standard with waterproof pads. Wooden instrument should not be subject to rain. The pads are just the beginning.... Next thing the pivots and springs will be rusting. A student instrument with a set of rusted pivots may as well be written off.
Yes, the school/college needs a wake-up call. Get all the clarientists to seek compensation, even if just to make a point. Forget the ignorant band director. He will only try to cover his ignorant skin. Go for the chief poohbah of the institutuion so pressure comes down on the director from above.
This is utter madness! (Unless the institution is very rich.)
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-09-23 00:48
Amen to all that.
Also, as I have said before, my son's marching band clarinet is a Selmer 1400 (resonite) with synthetic pads and corks. Now he is also thinking about synthetic reeds, but we haven't gotten to that yet.
Yes, weatherizing that really works is not cheap, but if your daughter's band director is that intent on doing it in the rain, the choices are limited.
Having been through some similar experience, you can demand the school pay for the damage for the sake of bringing attention to the problem if you can't solve it directly with the band director, but don't count on them actually paying.
If the cost of proper weatherizing is too much for some or all the students' parents to afford, you might try some fund raising activity that will cover all the woodwind players in the band.
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