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Re: Need professional advice re: key cork

Author: Chris P
Date: 2018-11-04 18:52

Buffet have yet to get this linkage fitted and working correctly. Both parts of the linkage should sit parallel with each other with an equal gap of around 0.5mm between them which will be taken up with that thickness of tech cork or similar hard wearing material so there's no lost motion or sponginess. All too often the LH F/C linkage is at an angle and the sharp leading edge of the linkage digs into the underside of the linkage tab on the F/C key and either binds up or chews through the silencing material. If the geometry was correct, it would work well.

But that's never the case with Buffets and is just one of many ongoing problems (for the end users and repairers) they're not going to resolve at all. They may have been fitting ab adjusting screw to this linkage on their more recent pro level clarinets, but that makes the action even worse as the adjusting screw tip is too near to the LH F/C lever key barrel instead of at the end of the linkage piece, so that makes a ton of travel in the LH F/C lever, The contact point for a clean, snappy action should be as near to the spring catch on the RH F/C key (but not fouling on the spring catch).

You'd have thought Buffet have had around 170 years to get things right instead of making things worse. For the company that gave the world the so-called 'Boehm system' clarinet (which should correctly be called the 'Klose-Buffet system'), they're not doing themselves any favours.

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

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