Klarinet Archive - Posting 000513.txt from 1997/05

From: "Lorne G. Buick" <lgbuick@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Rossi Clarinet question/WW catalog
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:43:40 -0400

Hi Steve - I don't know if Rossi's is the same as the Stubbins-Kaspar
mechanism, but yes it is to make the throat Bb sound better and also to
improve intonation in the upper register. It works admirably for both
purposes (I've been playing Rossi clarinets for about seven years now).

> On pg 25 of the fall/winter 1996-97 Woodwind and Brasswind woodwind catalog
> appears the blurb for Rossi instruments. The uppermost picture shows a
> mechanism I am unfamilliar with. Is this the Stubbins-Kaspar
> make-the-throat-Bb-sound- better-mechanism??? Is this a standard feature of
> the Rossi clarinets??

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