Category: Clarinet Maintenance and Repair
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DIY Clarinet Maintenance
How to care for your clarinet between professional tune-ups, plus tips about a few simple problems you can diagnose and repair at home. My editorial opinion — I would prefer to use plumbers’ tape to tighten a cork rather than carpenter’s tape — the glue on the carpenter’s tape can cause problems. Read more
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Six Clarinet Maintenance Tips
Swabbing – corks – cleaning your mouthpiece – teflon tape for emergency repairs – Boveda humidity packs Read more
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Three Common Mechanical Problems
This is a playlist of two videos discussing how to diagnose and correct three common mechanical problems: bridge key alignment, G#/A screw adjustment, and crow’s foot adjustment. Both videos cover the same three problems. One shows how to bend keys. The other advises taking the instrument to a repair shop instead of trying to bend… Read more