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Re: Chinese Rosewood Clarinets ?

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-10-19 01:50

Prior to discovering clarinets I played flutes. My first flutes were disfunctional when I acquired them . I learned to service them through internet research. One day I came across an indepth article about flute pad preservation and restoration written by a professional orchestra member. He claimed to obtain 8 to 10 years of life from his pads through the cigarette paper and olive oil method while some of his mocking peers were taking their instruments into the repair shop every 3 to 6 months for pad problems. Ever since then I have used that method for all my flute and clarinet pad restoration and cleaning. Pads that don't respond to that method are replaced.
Either my Armstrong or Artley had a wide deep cavity with ridges that bound the spring to open key positions.After filing out the ridges with a precision file the spring was too short to function within the now smooth cavity. I replaced the spring with one I made from a piece of wind up car spring. That spring kept losing its tension. After that my repair shop sold me 4 extra long straight springs to resolve the problem.I broke the first 3 but succeded in bending the 4th to the right shape with a loop on the end to prevent gouging. It has worked well ever since. On a later clarinet with the same problem I resolved the issue by simply fabricating a runner from a toy car spring for the spring to act against. It is much cheaper to fabricate a runner than travel to the repair shop to buy springs at $4.00 each.
To be honest I enjoy jerry mongering broken clarinets as much as I do playing them.

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