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Re: Enhanced Key Systems

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-11-07 22:48

Chris -

I'm not a professional repairman, but I do make small adjustment on my own clarinets. On the standard clarinet, it's simple to bend the bridge key a tiny amount to balance the pad pressure between the pads above the right index finger and the left middle finger. (I do the same with the crow's foot in the right little finger keys.) Adding the extra ring and it's associated tiny vent hole means that there are two additional settings that may need to be adjusted, and finding the ideal one for all four is difficult, at least for me. The articulated C#/G# mechanism adds a fifth hole that must be balanced with the right hand pad.

I have a Buffet from the 1930s with the seventh ring and the articulated C#/G#, and every adjustment I make throws off the others. Part of the problem I guess is that I don't have an alcohol lamp or gas burner, and I don't feel comfortable melting the shellac and floating a pad to its correct position.

Ken Shaw

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