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Re: When to get clarinet repaired?

Author: BartHx
Date: 2015-02-13 06:38

Bennett: I think that suggestion has been pretty clearly made by the posters to this thread. The discussion (pro and con) relative to learning to do simple repairs one's self applies to only after she has gotten past the upcoming audition. The consensus here seems clearly to be that she get her clarinet professionally repaired asap in preparation for her audition.

I do most of my own repairs because it is a minimum two hour drive from where I live in the mountains to the nearest decent repair shop. Yes, there is one shop closer that claims to do repairs. However, I have (truthfully) never seen an instrument come out of their shop that was usable after being repaired. I have seen them attack a "repair" on an electric guitar with two vice grips. I frequently end up repairing their repairs for other clarinetists. The tech who is two hours away is very good, knows the situation in my area, and is more than happy to work with me on repairs for which I am not equipped or skilled at doing. On the other hand, I have been known to do a quick repair during a concert intermission or, on one occasion, recork a bass clarinet tenon between concerts on a day that turned out to have two concerts in one day. It was a very hot day and the cork had completely peeled off and disintegrated. It was the only bass clarinet and bass clarinetist we had at the time. Without someone with basic skills and supplies, we would have been missing an important part in the second concert.

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