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Re: need advice on purchasing a clarinet

Author: Geirskogul
Date: 2008-08-26 05:51

"Besides, my clarinet teacher told me that Yamaha clarinets tend to have a certain flaw."

If it's any help, I play on a YCL-23N (the '69-'71 version of the 26/24N) and some of the springs are going to be replaced, apparently for their second time. I'm just a beginner when it comes to playing, but I've learned that as the springs in the older Yamahas start to lose tension they fall out of their "tracks" far too easily and end up scratching the area around it on the body; this also causes the keys (especially the left hand pinky key used to play C5, I don't know what it's called) to lose almost all feedback. They'll still usually play, but won't return all the way up. My instructor loved the clarinet itself, but he said that he's seen the problem on older Yamahas before.

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