This is my tonehole leveler. I use it to roll it on the cork in the picture, so the cork will get nice and round. In the picture I have already rolled it so it's curved.
After gluing the tenon cork on, it's dry and not slippery (we want to make it slippery so it will slide easily into the clarinet and seal properly). This is a paraffin wax that we then heat with our torches. I tested the heating on a bad cork and that cork is really easy to scorch!
This is what it looks like after heating. Nice and smooth.
This is a cork that I messed up while cutting, and didn't see it until I only had 15 minutes left to finish off my clarinet and had already glued it on. Whoops. This one should be replaced because cork grease will find it's way in that crack and under the cork, damaging the glue so the cork will spin on the tenon; or break loose.
This is my bench partner (we sit next to each other) Whitney. She's cleaning all fingerprints off her clarinet using gloves, so she doesn't put new fingerprints on.
This is my clarinet, all done and ready to go! I had just enough time to quickly wipe the visible fingerprints.
Farewell clarinet!
My flute screw board. It's just like the clarinet screw board but this one says flute. Kidding, it has different holes as the clarinet and flute keys are very different. The flute is pretty easy to take apart, compared to the clarinet, well, as long as we're not counting knockpins.
My flute all taken apart, the screw board for the flute looks really simple. And the sheet for flute nomenclature, soon there will be a test on that!
My flute naked. this is my method flute, I'm not quite ready to take apart my own!
Again, my screw board.
Looks like someone decided to change one pad. Can you guess which one?
Oh wow, trying to fix the regulation. This is the f to f# on the lower stack of the flute. Those two should be touching at the exact same time, but the pads are a bit messed up and I just put way thicker foot corks in so they won't touch. Regulation is two or more keys closing together with one touch.
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