Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 1997/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Leblanc Throat mechanism
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 10:15:58 -0500

Maybe Stubbins has heirs who can claim royalties. Where does Baines show
this German mechanism? I don't recall any such drawing in "Woodwind
instruments and their history"; my copy is of quite an old edition,
though.
Roger Shilcock

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Nick Shackleton wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 10:15:54 -0500
> From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.uk>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.us
> To: klarinet@-----.us
> Subject: Re: Leblanc Throat mechanism
>
> Leblanc used to make a throat Bb mechanism known as the SK mechanism. In
> Stubbins' book he offensively accuses Anthony Baines of drawing such a
> mechanism and claiming it as a German invention wherease he (Stubbins)
> claims that he invented it. Since the mechanism Baines illustrates is in
> fact a pre 2nd world war German design I had always assumed that there was
> nothing original in the SK mechanism. However I recently obtained a Leblanc
> with the SK mechanism and it is quite ingeniously made and, unlike the
> mechanism drawn by Baines, it actually switches to a different hole for Bb
> rather than adding an additional vent for that note. This SK concept was
> certainly not invented by Stubbins (D J Blaikley patented such a devise for
> Boosey & Co around a century ago) but it is very cleverly designed. Does
> anybody know whether this SK mechanism is what Leblanc are offering now?
> Nick
> Nick Shackleton, University of Cambridge, Godwin Laboratory,
> Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RS, UK
> phone: (44) 1223 334876
> fax: (44) 1223 334871
> home phone 1223 311938
> e-mail: NJS5@-----.uk
>
>

   
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