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Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking

Author: moolatte  Date:   2009-09-20 02:58 Well, you see... I put that the key sticking was unrelated because it's a problem I've been having to deal with since April. To the point, yesterday I had my clarinet out, and I had a hat bag with metal rings, and one of the metal rings got caught on the 2nd to bottom trill key. It was really dark outside (It was an outside performance) and noticed that my clarinet got caught on something. I couldn't see too well, and blindly tried to take the metal ring off of the trill keys. I gently pulled in whatever way until it finally came off, but I'm not sure if I might've bent one of the trill keys. Is there any real way of checking for that? In a related matter, my C# key sounds all airy. I let one of my friends look at it and she said my C# key was bent over to the right. Is she right? It looks like it's in the right place, in the middle of the impression hole, but I'm not good with such technical stuff of the clarinet. ----------------------------- To the key sticking. My register key sticks every time I take it out of the case. In April, we were at contest, and I had a solo. I was extremely nervous. (Basic story, don't want to bore you) As soon as we went on stage, my register key kept sticking, something that I'd never had to deal with before. Even when we were in the rehearsal room 10 minutes earlier. It's a problem I've just had to deal with until now. I swab my clarinet out sufficiently every day I play it, but it just sticks for some reason. I can press the register key, and get it to come unstuck, and it will remain unstuck for the rest of the time that I play it. The only way to keep it from sticking is to put a little piece of paper between the register key. (But it sticks anyways the next time.) What can be done? ----------------------------- Additional question that I figured someone might know the answer to even though it's not exactly a clarinet question: What's the average reed strength that a senior in high school usually will be playing at? (He plays saxophone, but I haven't exactly had a close eye to see whether is was an alto or tenor. He was making really high pitched noises on it the other day, so I would assume alto) Some clarinets here double on saxophone also, so I figured one of them might be a lesson teacher who would know.

Topics	Author	Date
Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking	moolatte	2009-09-20 02:58
Re: Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking  new	clarnibass	2009-09-20 04:25
Re: Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking  new	chris moffatt	2009-09-20 12:20
Re: Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking  new	Ken Shaw	2009-09-20 12:57
Re: Metal hooked on clarinet; removal in the dark + unrelated key sticking  new	Koo Young Chung	2009-09-20 15:28

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