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Jennifer Deegan

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Hi,

I'm not a plumber, but a home DIY-er, trying to fix a musical instrument. I wondered if I might ask whether a plumbing part might do the job?

I'm looking for a part that would be a bit like the pipe below. It could be metal or plastic, and stiff or flexible. It needs to be about this length and width, but does not need to be exactly the same. The only real requirement is that it should have the outer and inner diameters of the ends be the same as shown in the image below.

neck size.jpg

The pipe is to be used as a neck for a bass clarinet, which is shown in the image below. It's a lot like a large saxophone.


Bass clarinet.jpg


This is a close-up of the neck.

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I hope you don't mind my asking this in a plumbing forum. If it's not the right place then please do just ignore or delete it.

I'm a stay-at-home Mum and getting out to plumbing shops is tricky, so I thought it might not hurt to ask.

Thanks!
 
Sorry to say there's nothing like that in the plumbing game

Best bet is to contact a music repair shop
 
Thanks, yes that's the better option, but I already blew my budget buying the main body and the mouthpiece, and I still need the neck and the bell (trumpet shaped bit at the bottom). I was hoping to cobble something cheap together while I save up for the proper parts. You're right though, that is the proper part.
 
A clarinet player in an internet forum in the US told me what they'd do there, but I think the fittings and names may be different there. This is what he said:

1" PEX pipe is the closest material I've found in size to a bass clarinet neck. A 1" boat drain tube fits my Bundy neck socket so that's a good place to start. They cost about 10 USD online. 1" copper fittings roughly fit pex pipe so I would use those with some epoxy. A bass clarinet mouthpiece fits in a 1 1/4 copper fitting that's been sanded out around 1mm so I would use that for the receiver.

As for the bell, you can make a bell from pvc pipe. A 90 degree schedule 80 extra think wall "sweep" (can be found in the electric section in your local Home Depot) fits the bottom of a bass clarient tenon. If you cut a 2" section of this, using some more pieces of 1 1/4 pvc pipe and fittings along with a funnel you can make a bell. The hardest part is drilling the hole just right (or just use a 3 way fitting. Also you loose low Eb this way. I made a low D extension for my Bundy bass using PVC pipe and some saxophone keys.
 

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