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Re: Repair question

Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-02-15 20:45

If you do stick the bumper material onto the body, just be sure it doesn't foul the F#/C# linkage arm as that can either make it feel sluggish (and Buffet F#/C# keys have a poor action anyway, so no point in making things worse than they already are) or it could prevent the F#/C# pad from closing.

Buffet and some others have circular recesses cut into the body beneath the LH F/C lever foot and the E/B linkage arm to glue a piece of cork (or silencing material of your choice) into instead of glueing them directly to the key. So when replacing them, punch out a 4mm diameter disc of 1.6mm cork which will do the trick.

A circular recess can easily be milled into the joints if you want to glue small discs of cork into them instead of onto the undersides of keys - Selmer have them in several places on the top joint on some of their clarinets, as do Leblanc. Buffet DG Prestiges had loads of them.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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