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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000019.txt from 2006/11

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Zelenka Sonata No. 4...
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:54:32 -0500

Standardized? The bassoon? International pitch? Hah!
My many Fox bocals supposedly correspond numerically to Heckel bocals of one
lower number. Eg, a Fox #2 = Heckel #1. But then, I have never believed
that the darned things were consistent anyway. My prewar Heckel bocals #1
and #2 play at the same pitch. My Heckel #0 is just lousy at any pitch. On
my Heckel 9K all bocals are flat!
Actually, a more important question would be which bocal is the pipe used by
the factory to adjust the final tuning of the instrument. My understanding
is that Heckel used to use the #1 to make his instrument in judicious tune
at 440Hz. Now, who knows? Everyone plays at whatever pitch he thinks is
appropriate.
Herb

On 11/3/06 3:15 PM, "gunterbsn@-----.net>
wrote:

>>
> Thanks guys for the time information on the Zelenka.
> So nice to have such a helpful list.
> I do have another question, however:
> Do the new Fox Bocals correspond to the Heckel bocals as far as length?
> My student has a Fox #1 and of course we can order the next longer bocal,
> but I was just wondering for comparison purposes. How about Puchner's,
> Moosmann, etc.
> Has it been standardized.
> Thanks again,
> Pat Gunter
>
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