Just for fun.
I learned a lot from a friend whose signature is "X".
He is an interesting person and also smart. Actually he is 3 yeard
above me, perhaps I should not use the term "friend". Anyway, he will
not mind.
One thing we did while we were both in NTU was taking care of the clarinet
by ourselves. There was a good clarinet repair person in Taiwan but he
charged very expensive. So, we bought the pads from music store and
glue from local grocery store and change the pads, oil the clarints,
adjust the strength of the springs by ourselves. X started doing that
after some reading on a book about clarinet then
I learned it from him. It was a lot of fun doing that. Things changed
later because they did not sell pads in music stores anymore. That was
the end of our happy period with our clarinets. Why they stop selling
pads? I never know.
I was not very careful all the time. One day I burned my Bb clarinet
while trying to fixed one pad. I was scared but did not tell anyone. The
clarinet looks fine except some small texture change in the upper join.
What happened after that? Nothing. I am still using that clarinet now and
It sounds as though nothing has ever happened.
For me, the other scaring moment was when I took my clarinet to that
very good repair person to work on. Since we did not have new pads to
work with, I had no choice but to hand my clarinet to him. I was suprised
when he worked on my clarinet without mentioning the "burned part" and
the pad work I had done (he was very unfriendly whenever he found any
pad which was not replaced by him). Why he could not tell it was my
pad work? I guess he just looked at the pads and they were from Buffet,
the same as his choice (different from other repair person).
I know why it does not matter to "burn" my clarinet now. But it's
been 7 or 8 years since I worked on my pads. I am not sure if I will
do all the maintance work by myself anymore.
Hsuan-Yi Chen
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