Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2006-05-26 11:03
>>The worst needle springs are made from phosphor bronze - when they break, they break right at the pillar so removing them can be a pain. Boosey&Hawkes used them, and I think the US made student flutes (Emerson, Bundy, Gemeinhart, Armstrong, etc.) use them as well.
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Some cheap brands of recently-manufactured clarinets have phosphor-bronze springs. Buying these springs for replacements is a false economy, imho. For instance, Ferree's Tools sells the best needle springs, of blued steel in measured sizes, at $1.20 per dozen or $8.20 per hundred for the series of sizes that fit clarinets. Larger saxophone sizes run $1.60 per dozen or $11.40 per hundred in measured sizes. An assortment of 100 miscellaneous blued steel springs sells for $100 there. (My experience is that the sizes tend to run large, for saxophones, in the miscellaneous assortment.) The stainless steel round springs for Bundy and similar clarinets sell for $1.50 per dozen or $11.00 per hundred in measured sizes. With prices this reasonable on good-quality parts, why save a few cents by buying junk?
Lelia
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