... You may be way off base rarely but even you have to admit that you don't always get things right.
I do not apologize for being assertive in presenting information I know to be correct in an environment where so much misleading information is presented. Occasionally I am indeed wrong. I readily acknowledge and apologise. (I
hate to mislead people!)
The OP is from what I gathered a fairly competent individual and musician and he didn't wrangle with you the way I did.
First, I saw no reason to make any assumptions about this player. Sorry, but I don't understand why you continue to do so. Relative beginners actually tend to have this "B" problem more than experienced players do, because their instruments are less likely to have received the attention of an expert technician.
Secondly, as every experienced tech knows, the abilities of a player have little correlation with their knowledge and insights of the detailed mechanical function of their instrument. And this OP was no exception, or he would not have started the thread.
What I don't understand about people like you Gordon is how caustic your tone is most of the time.
First, if you want to get personal with me, be honest and make it directly personal, without the "people like you" phrase, which smacks of the discriminatory process of stereotyping in order to apply those stereotypes to individuals. I don't want others to be tarred by my brush, nor vice versa.
You seem to be taking as personal something that was not. Unless I know you pretty well (and I don't) then I try to respond only to the concept statements in a post, hence nothing intended to be personal, nor reacting to the nature of the writer. I hope that this is reciprocated. Is that not appropriate in a very large forum?
Perhaps you misinterpret forthright as "caustic". "Caustic" is a value judgement imposed by the reader rather than the writer, and I think it possibly says more about the particular reader. But perhaps I am sometimes provoked when others persist in presenting incorrect or misleadingly incomplete information.
Jimmy Yan taught me how to look at a clarinet's set up properly and he was such a nice person about it.
I'm glad he was such a nice person... most of my customers find the same about me. I do find myself wondering why if her "taught me how to look at a clarinet's set up properly", he omitted the bit about the most common cause of b functioning poorly.
He was not only the best tech I ever knew but also the most human and mature one as well.
Possibly most of my customers would say the same about me. But it is not really relevant here.
I wonder how he would fare in this forum's crazy environment? Invite him in! There are precious few of us brave enough to even be here.
Again let me reiterate because you don't seem to listen:
The crows foot may solely be at fault, or the C/F pad may be too thin, wrong altogether or not seated properly, and you made a great point about the B post being loose, it's rare but it does happen. [/QUOTE]