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Re: A clarinet issues

Author: donald
Date: 2019-10-28 09:07

Here is another possibility... One of the "flat springs" may be stopping a key from closing. For most of this year I had a problem that my Festival Bb would play fime, then out of nowhere I'd have trouble starting a tone (oddly it almost never happened in the middle of a phrase???).
As I play professionally this was quite alarming, and caused me to squeak in rehearsal much to a music directors annoyance.
Twice techs thought the had isolated the problem, but to no avail. As it was very intermittent it was hard to work out what was causing it.
Eventually I discovered that a groove had been worn on the metal plate under the throat A spring, and that every so often the spring would dig in, and the key would remain slightly open. Something like this could conceivably happen with side trill keys. Just an idea.

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