Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 1995/07

From: Gary Bisaga <gary@-----.ORG>
Subj: Articulated G# key
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:26:30 -0400

A short while ago, there was discussion about the articulated G# key
on some clarinets and the problems of having a tone hole going through
a tenon. I guess I didn't think about it at the time, but why would a
different key arrangement force a different hole position? On my
(non-articulated G#) instrument, the G# hole is *just*barely* above
the shoulder of the middle joint, right up against the metal ring at
the bottom of the top section in fact, whereas the tenon is below the
joint.

Comparing the key arrangement on my tenor sax (with articulated G# of
course), I don't understand why a similar arrangement wouldn't work on
clarinet - instead of having the G# key *push* open a normally-closed
pad like it does now, have it *allow* the same (normally open) pad to
open only if none of the keys in the lower hand is pressed.
(Difficulties in the necessary levers aside, of course.)

I hope I'm not being (unusually) dense here. If there's something
obvious, my apologies. At least I searched the archives first.

Gary Bisaga (gbisaga@-----.org)