Clarinet Repair Starter Kit

Description

Purchase your supplies and you will be automatically enrolled in our free 2-week online ZOOM repair basics course taught by Buffet-Crampon Technician, Bruce Marking.

In this short course, you will learn how to assemble and disassemble your clarinet, change a pad, replace a bumper, key, or tenon cork, and discover how much you like doing repair.

Our two week repair course will be held on: Saturday, June 18th and 25th from 9-10:30 AM Mountain time.

All classes will be recorded and be made available to you. Following the purchase of your supplies, we will send you details to register on Zoom for the course. Enrollment is limited and when we run out of starter kits this course will be closed for registration.

While the course is free you will need supplies that you need to purchase locally and supplies we will provide.

From Home Depot or your local hardware store you will need to purchase:

Razor Blades – single edge blades

Denatured Alcohol – 1 can

Q-Tips – 1 large package

DAP Weldwood Contact Cement- 1 container

Small soft paintbrush or toothbrush (bristles don’t matter) – flat bristled brush

Emery cloth  – 240 grit (for sanding tenon corks)

Emery board – pack of 10, or similar (for sanding key corks)
Cigarette paper – OCB un-gummed, or any brand with gummed edge cut off

 

The rest of the items we will provide in our Clarinet Repair Starter Kit includes:

PADS

10 – 8.5mm Valentino Greenback White pads 4 – 11mm Valentino Greenback White pads 2 -14mm Valentino Greenback White pads 6 -15.5mm Valentino Greenback White pads 10 – 8.5mm Cork pads

KEY OIL – 1 bottle

GLUE – Hot melt glue – 4 pieces

ALCOHOL LAMP

SCREWDRIVERS -2 mm for hinge rods -3 mm for pivot screws

PAD SLICK

PLIERS

SPRING HOOK

SHEET CORK 1/16 for tenon and key corks – 1 sheet

SHEET CORK ASSORTMENT – (1 of each thickness)

STEEL RULE (in millimeters)

CLARINET ASSEMBLY BOARD

 

Last but not least, you will need to come with your own instrument to work on!