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Can this clarinet be saved?

Author: Bill
Date: 2001-11-19 15:24

I have an older Marigaux clarinet with major damage in the socket and first tone-hole of the lower (right-hand) joint. The socket wall has two (or three) cracks. In addition, the top tone-hole of the joint (B natural/F sharp) was damaged such that wood was lost from the top surface of the tone-hole chimney---the tone-hole would have to be built back up. Don't laugh (too hard!), but I made a temporary repair using a mixture of Elmer's glue and very fine blackwood shavings. It restored a lot of the compression.

Despite the damage and the crude repair, this is a fine-sounding clarinet. I'm assuming most repair techs would refuse to work on it, but I thought it was worth it to get some feedback. The remainder of the clarinet is in very good shape. --Bill.

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