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I need to solder this



back on to this



for a friend, before a rehearsal we're both involved in - beginning at 1:30 tomorrow.

It's part of one of these:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... lated-keys

As can be seen, solder was only behind around 2/3rd to 3/4th of the flange. I will "tin" the flange (ie. cover the entire surface with a very thin coat of solder) prior to re-soldering it to the bass clarinet bell...or I could - just as well - not, and it would likely last for yet another 15-or-so years.

Thirty-something years ago, their father - a pediatric neurologist - stopped one of my children's seizures - which began shortly after being injected with "safe" 6-months inoculations. The damage had already been done - and we'll likely have to provide shelter for that particular offspring for the rest of our lives, but their father saved our child's life.

Communities and friendships are real.

Once broken, they cannot be legislated or compelled to heal themselves.

BC = Bass Clarinet

Okay fine, Buffet Crampon

To coax the ENTIRE flange into being soldered (for better-than-oem bond), I pushed things to the brink:

- Not only did I "tin" (coat with thin solder) the entire flange and scrape away any that even began to roll around its edges, but
- I also heated it as much as I dared - as there are three OTHER solder joints [1] the female tenon to the bell itself, [2] the bell key saddle, and [3] the cross brace flange - ANY of which could have failed. Two of those BARELY began to "weep" (scary, but - actually - a good sign), and I was able to chip the weepage away.

Tiptoeing on a tightrope between "stronger/better than new" and "don't F-up the item nor its delicate silver plated finish" is quite a narrow (guitar #1 E-string narrow...??) tightrope.







Of course, this work isn't (and none is, without refinishing) cosmetically "perfect" work (albeit "close"), but could you just imagine what they would've gotten back, had they taken it to a "music store".