Author: Fred Boreale
Date: 2013-01-27 03:35
Hi All,
I am new to the BBoard, New to music, And new to the clarinet. I am learning to play the clarinet on my own as I am on a very fixed income and cannot afford an instructor at this time. I have a S.M.L.clarinet that I brought over 20yrs. Ago with the intention of learning to play when I retired. Well the clarinet was put in a closet and forgotten I even forgot I had it. (out of sight out of mind) it was just found recently, Well I took it out of the case and it still looked like when I originally brought it, I cleaned and polished up all the keys and brought a new reed and tried to play it and it worked, I had some books and I started to learn That was 3 months ago,
The cork was starting to become loose, the cork on the mouthpiece fell off and the center cork was very loose the two joints were flapping in the breeze and being on a fixed income I have no way to take it to get it fixed, until I saw a youtube video on replacing tenon corks, well I went out and found a roll of natural cork and I followed that video and replaced the corks on all 4 joints and they came out great! Really great,A great video! I also without a video replaced the missing cork from the back of the keys and replaced what was left of the worn out cork on the keys also, Now I never had done anything like that before.
Now the pads are staring to fall out one by one I put them back in heat the cup and they seem to stay for awhile, I need all new pads but again I can not afford to take it to be done, Everyone here makes it out to be the hardest thing in the world to replace pads, You have to learn some place and I have no choice but to try learn and do it myself no one else is going to do it for me.
I found pads online at MusicMedic they are RooPads that seem to be a great pad? I will use a cork pad for the register key, a couple of RooPads for the upper and lower joint maybe synthetics for the rest?As soon as I can come up with the money I like to give it a try, It can't be that hard to do, Any advice would be appreicated, Sorry for the long post.
Thank You
Fred
fboreale@aol.com
Post Edited (2013-01-27 08:35)
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