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Re: Peg Bass Clarinet

Author: Max S-D
Date: 2020-12-07 20:43

Yeah, the cello endpin covers work great. I stuck one on my old Selmer's peg since it slipped on the wood floors at my house. Cost me about $2 for a four-pack that would have lasted me a lifetime except I lost the other three in my junk drawer already.

I bought a carbon standing peg from Wesley Rice because I liked the idea of saving a bit of weight in my case. It is pretty light, but I don't know if I would bother spending that money again. A steel rod would have done just fine. If I did go for another carbon rod, I would probably reach out to a few suppliers to try to just buy the rod myself and stick a cello endpin cover on it.

I like playing standing with the peg, but I do dislike the flex in the rod, and I'm pretty short. I imagine it would be worse for someone tall.

If I really want to go down the rabbit hole, I'll cut a few inches off of this carbon rod, buy a larger-diameter carbon tube, cut it to the length I need, and get a friend to print me an adapter that will accept the smaller diameter rod on top and friction fit in the larger tube on the bottom. Then I could epoxy it into the tube to hopefully gain stiffness and save weight at the same time. I do wonder if the hollow tube that would be required would just be comically large at that point.

That would be more about having a project to mess around with than any meaningful improvement in my playing.

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