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Re: Crow Foot Adjustment

Author: OneWatt
Date: 2021-02-18 19:59

Chris - Many thanks for your explicit description/solution. I suspected that doing this might resolve this (minor) issue on one of my clarinets but was hesitant to address it - and almost willing to ignore it, since those notes speak nicely in the lower joint. But a visual gap between the E/B underside and the crow's foot was obvious (and bugged me), producing a touch of double-action. You've empowered me with the confidence to proceed!

Chris P wrote: "If you then find there's a gap between the crow's foot and the underside of the E/B touchpiece, but no gap between the crow's foot and the F#/C# touchpiece and there's no play/lost motion when using the LH F/C key, then you'll have to bend the linkage arm on the E/B key to close the gap completely. Hold the E/B touchpiece down and press down on the shorter linkage arm that links the E/B key to the LH E/B lever and check and repeat until the gap between the crow's foot and the RH E/B touchpiece has closed up. Don't overdo it as this is more difficult to reverse without damaging the silencing materials on the linkage arm as they're only small squares glued to a small surface area and easily compressed or torn off."

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