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I had my clarinet’s tone holes undercut,<\/strong><\/span> which means the clarinet repairman shaved some wood out of the clarinet’s bore.\u00a0 Repairman . . . technician . . . the guy was my neighbor.\u00a0 He spends his workday looking down clarinets and saxophones.\u00a0 Like a coal miner.\u00a0 He has a little light he drops down the clarinet shaft, looking for leaks.<\/p>\n So my axe has a very wide-open sound.\u00a0 You can put a lot of air through it.\u00a0 That’s the trick \u2014 to put as much air through as possible.\u00a0 (The champ of\u00a0 “big air” is Gary Gould<\/a> from Los Angeles. \u00a0\u00a0He’s plays a Claude Lakey<\/a> 4* jazz clarinet mouthpiece \u2014 a loud and uncontrollable thing, like a two year old in a restaurant.)<\/p>\n But it’s not all about the bike, <\/strong>or<\/span><\/span> horn.\u00a0 The player needs to maintain a thin stream of air, like blowing a Superball across a table.\u00a0 Not a golf ball or ping pong ball.\u00a0 \u00a0It has to be a Superball.\u00a0 (Ilene Stahl<\/a> used the Superball analogy at KlezKamp<\/a> two decades ago.)<\/p>\n On a sax, you can put tons of air through because the physics of the sax are different than the clarinet.\u00a0 All the sound of a sax comes out the bell; on a clarinet, only a bit of the sound comes out the bell, and the rest pops out the fingering holes.\u00a0 There is a reverse air pressure on the clarinet.\u00a0 Air coming back at you.<\/p>\n In the real estate biz the “back pressure”<\/strong><\/span> is water leaks.\u00a0 Property management is all about water problems \u2014 roof\u00a0 leaks, pipes bursting, or some guy flushing potatoes down his toilet.<\/p>\n I have a trio of plumbers: Ron, who goes in with a pneumatic pump.\u00a0 If that doesn’t unclog the drain, we go to Bob, who has an electric snake.\u00a0 He’s picky, though;\u00a0 for example, he’ll say, “I’m not going in there.\u00a0 There’s a ton of feces and the guy is a fat slob.”\u00a0 If \u00a0Bob can’t \u2014 or won’t \u2014 fix the mess, we go with Bill, who charges 50 percent more than Bob and has a howitzer in his truck.<\/p>\n —- I had my clarinet’s tone holes undercut, which means the clarinet repairman shaved some wood out of the clarinet’s bore.\u00a0 Repairman . . . technician . . . the guy was my neighbor.\u00a0 He spends his workday looking down clarinets and saxophones.\u00a0 Like a coal miner.\u00a0 He has a little light he drops down the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTomorow:<\/span>
\nNEXT STOP PINSK . . . How to run your band like a train.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"