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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000080.txt from 2003/05

From: Guy Mallery <wa2msu@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Bassoon Tuning
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:43:34 -0400

Howdy,

It's actually a pity, Fox contra's are shipped with
instructions on how to *bend* the key casting for
the half-hole adjustment (whereas Heckel puts these
adjustment screws)...Yes, more for response and
quality of resonance than tuning...

Regards,
Guy Mallery
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contrabassoon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frenchbassoon

--- Stephen T Robertson <srbrtsn@-----.com> wrote:
> I must concur with several other posts, those screws
> are NOT tuning screws. The adjustment of these screws
> would affect the stability of the note more
> drastically than the tuning. Furthermore, I've played
> on a Renard 240 with all of Fox's bells and whistles,
> and I've seen no adjustment screws. I know that many
> Puchner models do have them though.
> Cheers
> sr
>
> ====
> Stephen T Robertson
> Bassoonist
> George Mason University
>
> 703.201.9897

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