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Author: moolatte
Date: 2011-07-17 19:06
Why should pets get to have all the fun of not getting lost? Lol
Is it possible? Has anyone ever tried?
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2011-07-17 19:40
Animals don't have serial numbers, clarinets do.
A microchip is passive unless acted upon by an RFID scanner. They only work within a radius of a couple inches.
They might help identify the owner if the original serial number is erased or altered, but such a microchip is not a key finder that you can whistle at and it will beep.
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Ben
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-07-17 19:55
They do microchip bassoons, but there's more depth of wood on a bassoon to fit one into the tenon shoulder of the tenor joint (near the C# tonehole). http://www.chiptrac.co.uk/musitrac.htm
If they made microchips around 2mm maximum (diameter), then they could be fitted into a hole drilled into the upper joint (parallel to the bore) by the middle tenon on clarinets (and oboes).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2011-07-17 21:56)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2011-07-17 20:39
Unless you leave your iPhone with Mobile Me active in your case bag. You could cleverly hide it (maybe under the Clarinet case in a secret pocket you cut), so that you could use the GPS function to locate it.
Probably wouldn't have much time before the case, and the case cover were separated, and the Clarinet was melted down for the metal
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2011-07-17 21:52
A microchip's only useful if people know there's a microchip in it. What are the chances of "oh look, a random clarinet! Let's scan it for a microchip!"
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2011-07-19 15:16
moolatte:
I like the generally area of thought you're headed in as it regards devices that could possibly deter theft, or at least recover stolen property and nab theives.
Which of course is not to say that, as well pointed out above, that the use of a passive microchip paradigm doesn't come with its share of drawbacks, even if it wouldn't be that hard to implement, as well as be better than a serial number alone.
In some space-age version of instrument protection whose implementation, I admit, far exceeds anything I could conceptualize building (at least yet), I like the signature gun paradigm, where some biometric (retina scan, finger prints) test is performed before the firearm, or in our case clarinet, becomes operable.
(Please--no jokes here about the "clarinet gun.")
Still, such a device does not deter "spite theft," just--maybe--profiteers--until devices for evading the protection become readibly available, and "version 2" of the "signature instrument" (trademark pending - wink) is marketed, to be followed by MORE sophisticated hacking hardware, and version 3, etc., etc.
Musical instrument theft for profit is reserved for life's low lives. They steal more than marketable property, they steal the ability to create art.
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2011-07-20 07:14
My instrument insurance company gave me a free pack of Smart Water. I've yet to see what's involved, but this is probably the neasrest thing to a microchip.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-07-20 09:29
Allianz-Cornhill sent me a bottle of Smart Water, but I've never used it.
I did some work on a clarinet and tenor sax where the owner used Smart Water on them and through routine cleaning and polishing, most of it came off.
With any kind of identification, it's a case of marking them somewhere that's well hidden and well protected, but still accessable to some degree. On saxes you can mark the undersides of the palm keys, side keys or 8ve key, but on clarinets (and other instruments with silver plated keys or bodies) marking the keys will become obvious when the plating tarnishes everywhere else except where they've been marked. I suppose the best place to mark a clarinet is underneath the throat A key touch or the underside of the RH F/C touch as both places are fairly inaccessable. On flutes you could mark the underside of the LH1 touchpiece and on oboes the corks covering the undersides of the low C and Eb touchpieces.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2011-07-20 09:31)
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