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Re: The impossible repair

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-10-12 04:45

Play one of the affected notes - E would be best because you can control the instrument more easily with one hand than you can with F through A - and with your right hand touch each key on the upper half of the instrument. If you're getting metal on metal vibration, it will stop when you touch the vibrating key.

A couple of places where keys can touch lightly enough to vibrate against each other but without causing leaks or binding might be the rh bottom two side keys (Eb/Bb and the F# alternate above it) or somewhere along the the long keys connecting the top two rh side keys to their pad cups.

If the noise doesn't stop when you touch those side keys lightly with your right hand, you'll have to go around and try all the other keys, still while playing E. I suppose it could, though I've never seen it happen, be a badly fitted key sleeve vibrating against the rod that goes through it or against the posts that support it. Anything like that should stop making noise when you touch it. Probably none of it would be obvious to a repairer who isn't looking for it when the keys are off the clarinet. Although a good repair tech, especially the second one who was on the alert for the noise, should be thinking of something like that if nothing else solves the problem.

Karl

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