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Author: Andge
Date: 2002-03-09 03:15
Hi..
Help! I was at an honor band practice and while the guest conductor was talking, I dropped my clarinet! (Yikes!) It was at a 90 degree position and dropped horizontally to a 0 degrees position. On top of that, it hit the music stand in front of me! But thank God the clarinet still seems playable. (I performed on it later.) But now there seems to be a surface (or perhaps more) scratch on the top joint of my clarinet near the Buffet insignia. Will this effect the sound of my clarinet and is it fixable? I think a bit of the wood near the surface got scratched of. You can't fix wood by patching it or something, right?
Andge
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Author: Andge
Date: 2002-03-09 03:19
oh yeah... to describe the fall better.. the movement was like a tree that got chopped...or the clarinet was at the 12 o'clock position and than fell clockwise to the 3 o'clock position.
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Author: Jim E.
Date: 2002-03-09 03:31
Actually it sounds like you got off easy, I suspect you'll be more careful in the future. A surface scratch on the exterior should have no effect on the sound, but a tech might be able to make it look better, if not remove it entirely, depending on the depth of the scratch. It wouldnt be a bad idea anyway to get it checked for any bent rods or keys and to be sure it is still in regulation.
I bought a new truck a few years ago when I couldn't find a used one I liked at a price I was willing to pay. The whole reason I wanted used was so I wouldn't feel badly when it got scratched or dinged. Well... Its got a few dings, and I felt bad about each one.
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Author: Sally Gardens
Date: 2002-03-09 03:35
Slightly OT to Jim's OT: When I bought my car new, back in '96, I skidded on an icy road about 3 months after I'd bought it, dinged the left front bumper and fender on a concrete median, just enough to make me weep (not literally; I was too busy being thankful that nobody else on the freeway hit me as I went skidding and spinning), and ended up with my left headlight remaining barely wedged in there. I never did pay to fix the bumper, perhaps out of a slightly superstitious sense that were I to shell out the dough, I'd just turn around and ding it again. This way, I haven't acquired a single ding since. :-D
I do NOT recommend that Andge take this approach with the clarinet. Take the clarinet in, as Jim recommended, and have them look it over to make sure everything's in order.
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-03-09 05:34
Why would you want to remove it, Andge?
That's how our possessions become personalized. Like notches on Old West pistol grips, each one has a story - and yours is a real showstopper worth repeating to anyone who might ask about it 
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-09 10:04
And mine has an unofficial olympic mascot on the bell. One of a kind!
( http://www.strategicresources.com.au/fatso.html )
(oi oi oi)
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Author: William
Date: 2002-03-09 15:03
In my younger, more passionate, years, one of my clarinets failed the famous "wall test" during a particularily unsuccessful hot summers day of practice. The clarinet today, wears its distinctive markings (repaired cracks on the mid-joint sleeve) with pride and performs as well as it ever did before its "failure." I also learned a (different) lesson that day, as you perhaps have also. Good Clarineting!!! (and don't worry about a little scratch)
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Author: Marcia Nottle
Date: 2002-03-09 21:01
Is the "wall test" at all similar to the "table test" we subject our worst reeds to???
Marcia
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Author: christy
Date: 2002-03-10 02:30
tee-hee, the table test...me and my stand partner used to make our bad reeds into mascots...you know, draw little faces on them and then perform the table test...^__^
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-11 02:03
IHL - you're URL link doesn't work - (oi oi oi??).
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-03-11 02:06
Um - yes it does - my fingers were being recalcitrant - sorry!
Cute wombat!
diz (fellow aussie)
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-11 10:11
Every aussies mascot, the Battler's Prince. I've actually used that clarinet, wombat attached, in public performances. I think everyone was too busy listening to my wonderful music to notice Fatso, though. Either that or he was hidden behind the music stand.
smiggin holes for next winter games!
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-11 10:12
Every aussies mascot, the Battler's Prince. I've actually used that clarinet, wombat attached, in public performances. I think everyone was too busy listening to my wonderful music to notice Fatso, though. Either that or he was hidden behind the music stand.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-11 10:12
Every aussies mascot, the Battler's Prince. I've actually used that clarinet, wombat attached, in public performances. I think everyone was too busy listening to my wonderful music to notice Fatso, though. Either that or he was hidden behind the music stand.
I'm in Canberra, btw. I believe you are in Sydney?
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-03-11 10:17
oops. oops. oops. I was trying to correct it, each time I pressed 'enter' I had second thoughts. sorry everyone!
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