Klarinet Archive - Posting 000467.txt from 1996/08

From: "Fogle, Bill" <bill.fogle@-----.COM>
Subj: final clarification requested
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 12:41:21 -0400

I've followed the Frenchification thread because I think
it's pretty interesting but I'm still in the dark. Maybe
somebody can help me out. The "F" series (?) is
or *was* Buffet's "European" bore (like RC) and
the R-13 is the "American" bore, then? I hadn't realized
the R-13 was an "Americanism" as such. I would have said the
design, compared to Boosey & Hawkes and German
clarinets, was super-French. I understood that a
"French" bore was the narrow(er) bore now used most
widely (with the Caree et al. modifications). Apologies
to those for whom this topic is a "bore"!!! I would like to
know. What is an "American" bore? (me?). ----Bill Fogle.

   
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