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Re: Making a Schreiber clarinet

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2010-02-02 19:31

Very slick and technically impressive manufacturing.
Treatment of wood however gives me great concern... hacking off all the wood down to finished dimensions in a single pass may be very cost effective, but it doesn't do anything to relieve the stresses inherent in the wood, in fact it greatly increases them.
Also allowing plenty of time and incremental stages between operations provides much more accurate and stable dimensioning in the long run.
OK so these are not high end clarinets but if you look at the Buffet video you will see an almost identical approach to wood removal.

And you wonder why the wood moves after you receive your instrument!!

Check out Schwenke and Seggelke site (appropo another post today) and you will see they allow many months to build a clarinet for just these reasons.
The Eaton clarinets often spent years in between various wood stages and the final dimensioning.

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