This was Baby Valkyrie's weekend. I cleaned her some weeks ago, ordered pads (kudos to MusicMedic for having thin 2mm pads) and set to repadding.
O.M.F.G. What do I see? (I no longer wonder why this instrument has no maker's marks nor serial number - must be a singleton, a one-off instrument). Nearly every tone hole is not perpendicular to the bore but leans forward or backward, like branches grow out of a tree's stem. Okay, no big deal, I can deal with that. Bitta glue, presto, works.
But what is that?
It's not only tilted, it's out of round, out of true, completely Out Of Rosenheim (if you get the reverence).
What would I do with a tone hole like this? I've seen stuff like that on saxes (drop it once, et voilà, there you got it) but not with wooden clarinets. I don't have the equipment to re-ream the tonehole beds, nor do I think it'd be worth it.
Any shortcuts to make it halfway playable and not leave a mess for generations of repairers after me?
Or, in other words, any takers?
O.M.F.G. What do I see? (I no longer wonder why this instrument has no maker's marks nor serial number - must be a singleton, a one-off instrument). Nearly every tone hole is not perpendicular to the bore but leans forward or backward, like branches grow out of a tree's stem. Okay, no big deal, I can deal with that. Bitta glue, presto, works.
But what is that?
It's not only tilted, it's out of round, out of true, completely Out Of Rosenheim (if you get the reverence).
What would I do with a tone hole like this? I've seen stuff like that on saxes (drop it once, et voilà, there you got it) but not with wooden clarinets. I don't have the equipment to re-ream the tonehole beds, nor do I think it'd be worth it.
Any shortcuts to make it halfway playable and not leave a mess for generations of repairers after me?
Or, in other words, any takers?