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Author: Sneakers
Date: 2002-02-17 05:35
One of my students was playing a C major scale today and I thought she was playing wrong notes until I looked at her fingers. So, I tried her clarinet with my mouthpiece and the first line E natural is so out of tune that it is closer to an Eb. The first space F was at least 40 cents flat. Unfortuneately I forgot to check the B & C a 12th higher, but didn't notice problems with them when she was playing. It looked like the ring for the E might not be going down far enough, but I couldn't tell for sure.
I recommended to her mother that she have a repair person look at it. The only problem with that is that the local fly shop/music store doesn't have any repair people so it has to be sent elsewhere to be repaired, hopefully to the place they are buying it from that might offer them a good deal on the repair. Anyway, to make this really short story even longer, she has a band concert on Friday and I don't know if the school has an instrument to lend her. Is there possibly a minor adjustment that could be made, that I might be able to do, or do you think it is something major?
By the way, it is a wood Artley clarinet, which from reading previous posts, does not seem to be very well respected. Could it just be that Artley actually makes clarinets that out of tune?
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-02-17 09:54
check for
1) cork grease or gunk in any of the holes
2) the height of the pad that is between the two left hand rings- a number of things can happen to make this too low, including bent keys or just something simple like the cork on the linkage has "folded" etc (although this would most likely ALSO cause problems with the right hand notes as well, not always)
Just about every clarinet is built out of tune to one degree or another, and it certainly is easier to build one that has bad intonation than good..... i don't like Artley that much but haven't noticed them being too bad.
nzdonald
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-02-17 19:51
I'm no Artley lover, but those I've seen dont have that problem. I'd guess that [as said above] the pad just below the 1st finger left hand isn't rising [venting] enough to tune the note, perhaps by bent keywork or too thich a pad. Get good repair!! Don
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-02-19 09:35
HEY, if anyone reads this... today i played an Artley student clarinet that sounded GREAT!
fabulous tone, the keywork wasn't that hot, but really good tone!
so, i take back anything mean i said about Artley, ok?
nzdonald
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Author: jenna
Date: 2002-02-20 01:24
Welcome to the darkside, Donald. Just about everyone I know plays a Selmer, Buffet, or Yamaha.. and I still hold my own with my Artley. When our marching band tuned, who did they tune off of? Me and my Artley. =)
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