Sounds similar to what I have.

Heat sources: BBQ lighter, blow dryer for loosening stuck rods and screws
Pads: Some from China. some from local tech who sells me stuff at cost.
Corks: Canada. Don\'t like reconstituted corks. Do like pre-glued synthetic.
Tools: Music Medic clarinet kit and yard-sale stuff

I keep it all in a make-up salesman\'s airline carry-on case. The lid has lots of little pouches and elastic bands to hold eyeliner and lipstick. Perfect!

What I can\'t fix, the tech helps me with (if it\'s a fast, cheap fix.) If it\'s a bigger fix, the clarinet becomes material to engrave on.

Well, it\'s as done as it will be until after Christmas. Kitty seems to have lost one rod and one screw. No need to fix more leaks until that is resolved. It plays, just not a full range. Here\'s some pictures, before and after. The before pictures do not show the damage to the surface of the clarinet well. I would not have bought it had I known the damage under the lacquer. The keys looks yellow in the before pictures because they were dirty.

This is stout metal, evidently. I cannot bend them.

This is a plastic Vito that I put a couple of new pads on to make it playable. I think I\'ll glitter the whole thing in out school colors, then loan it to a student for basketball season to see how it holds up.

I just got an old clarinet in this. The clarinet, unfortunately, turned out to be a Frankenhorn (destined for engraving practice), but the case is cool. I\'m assuming it is a double case. One horn goes in the top and the other in the bottom. It\'s in very good shape except for one missing support.

There is a sticker from 1917 on the outside. The only maker\'s clue on the inside is a small brass tab that rotates to hold something that was shaped like a bass clarinet peg, but far too small.

Anyone have any other ideas or thoughts?

As I am far too lazy to want to resize, I am attaching a Word doc. There\'s also a picture of the mouthpiece that came with it.

Who knows? I haven\'t really a clue what I\'m doing other than the repad and clean-up. I sure hope it turns out pretty and sounding beautiful.

Hmm. I thought I was already a member here, but perhaps that was in the pre-spammer era. Or maybe not. It\'s late.

I have played clarinet for almost 40 years, but never at a high level. I played in school and 2 years at a community college. For the next 25 years, the only times I played were with the Pendleton Round-Up Mounted Band. Yes, we play on horseback, and yes, it really limits the music that can be played.

Last year I joined the local youth symphony with my son. What a stretch! I have felt like a realio-trulio country bumpkin, having never played with strings and having forgotten so many written symbols, if I ever knew them. I\'m getting much better.

After years of student-level plastic clarinets filled with horsehair and dust, I bought an old wood clarinet at a junk shop. I don\'t know why. I got it completely overhauled, fell in love, and got rid of the plastic. This clarinet, the Jean Marbeau featured on Phil\'s site, lasted me well for 5 years of rough outdoor playing. As soon as I joined the symphony, the repaired crack reopened and I found myself in search of a clarinet. All techs I took it to said it was not worth repairing. (I will soon have it back from Phil!)

My son\'s old borrowed sax gave up the ghost at the same time and I began a search for both instruments. I attended the University of the Internet faithfully and shopped wisely, I hope.

I have been playing a Signet 100 Mazzeo (mechanism functional) for the symphony. My Mounted Band clarinet is a lacquered brass Noblet. My son has a pristine 1930\'s Conn stencil alto.

I have also been dipping my toe in clarinet repair, buying oldies and donating them to my school\'s band program. I have also been messing with engraving. My current project is another brass Noblet. I have an old wooden one it\'s way to me, too.

In real life, I am a Spanish/ESL teacher with a husband and two teenagers.